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Ensign dies in single-car crash

SAN DIEGO — The Navy identified the officer killed in a weekend vehicle crash here as Ensign Zackery Norrbom.

Norrbom, 24, was speeding in a 2010 Chevrolet Camaro about 12:45 a.m. Sunday when the car went off the road in the coastal village of La Jolla and hit a sign and then a parked car, according to San Diego police.

Norrbom, who was alone in the car, was not wearing a seatbelt and was ejected from the car, police said. He died at a local hospital three hours later.

The accident remained under investigation, said Lt. Cmdr. Chris Servello, a Naval Surface Forces spokesman in Coronado, Calif.

Norrbom, of Fontana, Calif., had graduated in 2008 from the Naval Academy and reported to San Diego for assignment on the destroyer Milius, according to Navy Personnel Command.

He was a designated surface warfare officer. His military awards included the National Defense Service Medal.