By Lookout Staff

April 6 -- The drunk driver accused of causing the crash that killed "A Christmas Story" director Bob Clark, 67, and his 22-year-old son on PCH early Wednesday morning could be deported to his native Mexico once his local case is completed, immigration officials said Thursday.

Hector Velazquez-Nava, a 24-year-old illegal immigrant living in Los Angeles will be turned over to U.S. immigration officials and placed in deportation proceedings after the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement put him on an immigration hold, according to agency officials.

Valazquez-Nava was booked on suspicion of driving under the influence of alcohol, operating a motor vehicle without a driver's license and gross vehicular manslaughter.

Valazquez-Nava and passenger Lydia Mora, 29, of Azusa, were taken to UCLA Medical Center and treated for minor injuries. He is currently being held on $100,000 bail in a LA County Jail.

If he posts bail, Velazquez-Nava would be taken into federal custody on the immigration hold, agency officials said.

Police said Velazquez-Nava steered his GMC Yukon into the wrong lane of PCH in Pacific Palisades at about 2:20 a.m., striking Clark's Infiniti Q-30 sedan head-on. The filmmaker and his son, Ariel Hanrath-Clark, 22, died at the scene.

Best-known for the 1983 hit “A Christmas Story,” Clark was a prolific movie and TV director whose credits include the coming-of-age sex farce "Porky's" and "Porky's II: The Next Day."

Ariel had a music composition student at Santa Monica College, where he finished the applied music program last year, according to press reports. He worked as a part-time card dealer at a casino.

Several of his compositions had been performed by the college's jazz ensemble, according to sources close to the family.