Authorities have publicly identified four people who lost their lives this week to San Diego-area traffic crashes.
The most recent of the roadway fatalities took place about 4:30 p.m. Thursday, when 18-year-old Alexander Charmoli of Apache Junction, Ariz., collided with a car while riding a motorcycle south on Interstate 805 near Eastgate Mall in University City, according to the county Medical Examiner’s Office. Paramedics took Charmoli to Scripps Memorial Hospital La Jolla, where he was pronounced dead shortly after arrival.
Two days earlier, a collision in Coronado left a 78-year-old bicyclist dead. James Berta, a Coronado resident, collided with an SUV at state Route 75 and Tulagi Road about 1:30 p.m. Tuesday, the county agency reported. Berta died at the scene.
On Monday, Antonio Boccia, 78, was hit by a vehicle on Challenge Boulevard in La Mesa, leaving him with severe blunt-force trauma, officials said. An ambulance crew took him to Sharp Memorial Hospital in San Diego, where the La Mesa resident was pronounced dead shortly after 8:30 a.m. that day.
About 5 p.m. Sunday, Guillermo Hernandez, 33, of Valley Center was driving through the rural community when his pickup veered into the path of an oncoming sedan, the medical examiner reported. The collision left Hernandez dead at the scene. Also fatally injured in the wreck was a passenger in the car, identified by the county agency earlier this week as Grace Parsons, 75, of Encinitas.