In People v. McNorton (2001) 91 Cal.App.4th Supp. 1, the defendant was arrested for drunk driving while sitting in the passenger seat of a vehicle stopped on a highway while her companion, who was also intoxicated, was changing a flat tire. The appellate division of the Superior Court of Los Angeles County reversed the trial court's order dismissing the complaint on the grounds that corpus delicti had not been established. The court held that because the identity of the driver is not an element of corpus delicti, the People established circumstantially all of the elements of the drunk driving charge and the defendant's admission should not have been excluded. (Id. at Supp. pp. 5-6.)