Authorities Monday publicly identified four people who lost their lives over the last 10 days in San Diego-area traffic accidents.
The most recent of the roadway fatalities took place at 11:15 p.m. Friday, when a vehicle struck Keondre Alejandre, 32, as he was walking across the intersection of Camino Del Rio West and Hancock Street in the Midway district, according to the county Medical Examiner’s Office.
Paramedics took Alejandre to UCSD Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead early the next morning, the agency reported.
Shortly after noon last Wednesday, 66-year-old Debra Villasenor of Alpine was fatally injured when the SUV she was driving veered off a freeway exit from eastbound state Route 52 to Mast Boulevard in San Carlos and crashed into a light pole, according to the medical examiner and the California Highway Patrol. Villasenor died at the site of the accident.
Last Monday, a traffic accident mortally injured a pedestrian in his hometown of Oceanside, the medical examiner reported. An SUV struck Cesar Contreras, 59, at Francesca Drive and Mission Avenue at about 6:45 p.m. Oct. 10, killing him at the scene, the county agency reported.
On Nov. 7, a 65-year-old man died in a solo car crash on Interstate 5 in Sorrento Valley. John Lim of San Diego had just entered the northbound side of the freeway from Genesee Avenue shortly after 10 a.m, when the Hyundai Sonata he was driving veered across the roadway and struck a center-divider barrier at high speed.
The vehicle then crossed back the other way and hit a freeway sign and a guardrail on the east side of the Sorrento Valley Road offramp, CHP public-affairs Officer Michael Wessendorf said. Lim wound up trapped in the car and died before medics could take him to a hospital. The medical examiner has ruled the fatality a natural death due to heart failure.