San Diego resident Valerie Rogers, 23, was walking on westbound state Route 54 when she was hit by two different vehicles on Wednesday night. A 2008 Honda struck Rogers in the lane next to the fast lane and the victim was knocked to the ground.
Oncoming vehicles began to swerve to avoid her but she was then run over by a 2000 Toyota whose driver was unable to avoid her. Rogers was pronounced dead at a hospital at 7:55 p.m. Officers are investigation and are trying to determine why she was on the freeway.
A woman who was 62 years of age was hit by a car while crossing the street Saturday in downtown San Diego. The San Diego Medical Examiner’s Office pronounced her dead at the scene of the accident. The woman, whose name has not been released pending notification of the family, was headed to Clover Leaf Market on Reynard Way near Eagle Street to buy a lottery ticket.
As she walked across the street eastbound at the intersection, she was struck by a Honda Civic driven by a 75-year-old woman. Police and paramedics were called to scene in San Diego’s Midtown neighborhood about 9:25 p.m. The woman was taken to a hospital and the road was closed for an investigation.
A person riding a motorcycle suffered serious injuries in Encinitas Saturday when the motorcyclist and an SUV that was making a U-turn on South Coast Highway 101 collided.
The driver of a Nissan Pathfinder sport utility vehicle made the U-turn in front of the southbound motorcycle south of Santa Fe Drive about 3 p.m. Sheriff’s officials said the motorcycle rider suffered serious, but not life-threatening injuries, and was taken to a hospital.
A man riding his bicycle was hit by a fast moving motor vehicle in southeastern San Diego Wednesday afternoon. The victim got trapped beneath the larger vehicle and suffered major injuries while trapped there.
The bicycle accident was reported at about 3:05 p.m. on Imperial Avenue at 61st Street, in Encanto. Police officers, firefighters and paramedics were called to the scene. Imperial Avenue was closed off for an investigation. It extent of the bicyclist’s injuries is unknown to the public at this time.
A man died Tuesday night after being struck by a pickup truck near the intersection of Executive Way and La Jolla Village Drive in University City. The San Diego County Medical Examiner’s Office identified the pedestrian accident victim.
The crash was reported at around 8 p.m. near Westfield UTC mall. The man was crossing La Jolla Village Drive from south to north just east of the intersection when he was hit by a Toyota Tacoma driven by a 48-year-old man.
A man was killed Thursday night when his sport-utility vehicle veered off state Route 75, went down an embankment and landed on its side on the edge of San Diego Bay. The car accident occurred about 6:30 p.m. Witnesses reported that the vehicle was heading south on Route 75 went it crossed into the northbound lanes and went across the bike path and the Fiddler’s Cove Marina parking lot.
Firefighters extricated the man from the vehicle, and then pronounced dead at the scene. Before the accident, police had received a call about a vehicle being driven recklessly on the Silver Strand. 10News is a media partner of U-T San Diego.
A 44-year-old man riding his motorcycle was critically injured Monday in an auto accident near Camp Pendleton. The victim was riding a 1997 Honda 650L motorcycle south on Interstate 5 when the motorcycle accident occurred at around 12:35 p.m.
The motorcyclist turned the motorcycle to the right and veered across several lanes of traffic and was ejected off his bike. A witness who is also a nurse gave the man first aid until the paramedics arrived to the scene. The injury victim was immediately taken to Scripps Memorial Hospital, via medical helicopter.
A 19-year-old Ramona woman’s life was taken Monday when her car veered into the path and crashed into a propane truck on San Vicente Road west of Wildcat Canyon Road. According to witnesses and evidence at the scene of the truck accident, the woman was driving a silver Kia Spectra at an unsafe speed for the wet road conditions when the accident occurred about 2:10 p.m.
The woman failed to negotiate a curve in the road and the Kia spun out and crossed the double yellow line directly into the path of the semi-truck. The woman, who was not wearing a seat belt, died at the scene. The driver of the truck, Richard Leroy, 62, of Ramona, was not injured. He said he was driving about 30 to 35 mph at the time of the accident.
A 53 year old woman died at a hospital Friday night after a car accident on north state Route 125 south of H Street. The victim was driving a 1996 Jeep when the vehicle veered off the freeway about 4:10 p.m. for an unknown reason.
After the woman lost control of the Jeep she hit a metal guardrail that protected a metal support for an overhead sign and rolled the Jeep multiple times. The rescue crew extracted the driver from the Jeep, then placed her in a medical helicopter that transported her to Scripps Mercy Hospital, where she passed away at around 8:20 p.m.
A 20-year-old male who was riding a skateboard was critically injured Monday night in a hit-and-run accident. The auto accident was reported at 5:51 p.m. at Oleander Avenue and Alamitos Way. The victim was struck by a vehicle traveling east on Oleander.
Several hours later, a man called the sheriff’s communications center to report that he was involved in the collision. In a statement, he admitted that he was driving the vehicle that struck the victim. He was taken into custody.
