NOVEMBER 8, 2008 — The County Medical Examiner’s office has  reported that Jose Santiago, 18, of Oceanside, died Friday, shortly after arriving at Palomar Medical Center in an air ambulance. Santiago died from injuries sustained in an Oceanside car crash at about 8:25 p.m Friday. He was a backseat passenger in a Volkswagen sedan that crashed into a pole at Old Grove Road and Mesa Drive in Oceanside. Other passengers were also reported injured, and transported to hospitals in air ambulances.