A San Diego native man is having surgery after a pack of dogs attacked and mauled him and his brother Sunday evening as they were out for a run with two sisters and a 9-year-old niece near Valley Center Middle School. Richard Garritson, 21, was airlifted to a hospital with bite marks to both his calves, and John Garritson, 18, was also injured, but not as severely, when he and his brother tried to defend themselves from six dogs.
The San Diego Police Department responded to a call at around 5:30pm from the two men attacked by dogs on Cobb Lane near Coolwater Ranch Lane. Richard, is a competitive runner who was training to compete for a scholarship to Cal State San Marcos.
A pedestrian was seriously injured Sunday night in Poway after being hit by a car. The man was crossing Poway Road just west of Tarascan Drive at 8:55 p.m. when he was hit by a vehicle heading west.
Police state that the victim was jaywalking and was in an unmarked and unlit portion of the road. He was taken to Palomar Medical Center with significant head and spinal cord injuries. The driver of the vehicle stopped and is cooperating with authorities.
A woman who was driving the wrong-way was arrested in Del Cerro late Sunday afternoon on suspicion of drunk driving. Police arrested her after she crashed her car hurting herself and another individual who was driving the car she hit.
The woman who is 51 years-old was driving north in the sounthbound lanes of College Avenue near Lambda Drive in a Mini Cooper about 4:45 p.m. when she collided with a Kia sedan being driven by a man in his mid 30’s. San Diego Medical Examiners Office reported that both drivers suffered broken bones and had to be taken to nearby hospitals.
A suspected drunk driver, a 23-year-old man, veered off Miramar Road and landed on train tracks in Sorrento Valley early Friday. The man was driving westbound at approximately 2 a.m. when he lost control of his car, hitting a curb causing his car to go down an embankment.
The drunk driver landed his car on its side across a set of train tracks. It took firefighters about 35 minutes to free the driver from the wreckage. The driver was taken to a hospital with a broken thigh bone and ankle, and faces charges of drunken driving.
A pedestrian was hit and killed early Thursday morning by a moving vehicle in Vista San Diego. The victim was identified as 68 year-old Imelda Limon, who was a Vista native. Reports state that she was crossing North Melrose Drive by North Avenue at around 5:30 a.m. when a Saturn hit her.
The San Diego Medical Examiners Office reported the victim dead at the scene of the accident. The driver of the Saturn is a 64-year-old man stopped his car after hitting her. He did not suffer any injuries.
Northbound lanes of Interstate 5 were closed in Oceanside for nearly half an hour Friday afternoon to airlift a motorist who was badly injured in a car accident. A 37-year-old Carlsbad man was driving north in a Ford Explorer with three passengers about 1:50 p.m.
The Explorer driver swerved off the freeway and into a culvert north of Harbor Drive. The driver who was not wearing a seat belt was thrown out and suffered major injuries. His front passenger was taken by ambulance to the hospital with moderate injuries, and two children about age 12 were unhurt but also went to the hospital as a precaution.
Early Monday morning, a woman was arrested on suspicion of drunken driving after getting into a car accident. Police were called to the scene of the accident after the woman crashed her car in front of a Grant Hill market.
Police arrived at IMperial Avenue near South 30th Street just before 1 a.m. They found a woman trapped inside a vehicle on its side. Police found several open bud light beer cans in the car, which is why an investigation into the car accident is under way at this time.
The San Diego Police department is investigating a truck accident involving a big rig and a small Nissan. When the police got to the scene of the accident they found the driver of the truck dead behind the wheel. Officers first discovered the body on Monday morning.
Officers were called to Fourth Avenue near G Street just around 5 a.m. after reports that the truck swerved off the road, hitting a late model Nissan and then a fence. When police arrived, they found that the 55-year-old driver was dead. It appears he died prior to the crash while driving. The San Diego medical examiners the cause of his death has not been determined.
A motorcyclist was killed Sunday night in a high-speed crash that shut down several lanes on Interstate 805 in the South Bay. The San Diego Medical Examiners Office identified the victim as 24-year-old Jeancarlo Seville of Chula Vista.
The accident was reported on south I-805 just north of H Street about 10:15 p.m. Witnesses of the accident reported that Seville was traveling at high speed when he rear-ended a vehicle. Seville was a student who lived with his parents and his brother. He was declared dead at the scene of the accident.
A young man and woman from North County San Diego were killed Saturday in a head-on collision in Kern County. The two victims were in a SUV when they crashed head on into a pickup truck on Interstate 5.
One of the victims was a 22-year-old man from Oceanside, and the other was his 21-year-old passenger. The two victims were traveling north in a Ford Explorer when they lost control and went crashed through the center divider into the southbound lanes.