Authorities have publicly identified five people who lost their lives over the last 10 days to San Diego County traffic crashes.
About 5 p.m. Sunday, Grace Parsons, 75,of Encinitas was fatally injured when the car she was riding in was struck by an oncoming vehicle on Cole Grade Road in Valley Center, the county Medical Examiner’s Office reported. Paramedics took Parsons to Palomar Medical Center in Escondido, where she was pronounced dead shortly after arrival.
Two days earlier, another head-on crash killed a Chula Vista man. Ray Fredeluces, 49, was driving west on Otay Lakes Road shortly after 11:30 a.m. Friday when an eastbound Honda sedan veered into his path east of Wueste Road and struck the driver’s side of his Acura sedan, according to the medical examiner and the California Highway Patrol. Fredeluces was pronounced dead at Scripps Mercy Hospital in San Diego about an hour later.
On Thursday, a 67-year-old motorist was killed in a predawn collision in Kearny Mesa, authorities reported. Ted Zuidema of Santee was riding his 2016 Triumph to the west on Balboa Avenue when the two-wheeler collided with a 2025 Chevrolet pickup just east of Ruffin Road about 5:45 a.m., according to the medical examiner and San Diego police. An ambulance took Zuidema to Sharp Memorial Hospital, where he was pronounced dead about 90 minutes after the crash.
Shortly before 1 a.m. March 10, Jamison Kimbrough, 60, suffered fatal injuries when he rode a bicycle into the path of a westbound Hyundai Elantra at Fanuel Street and Grand Avenue in Pacific Beach, according to the county agency and police. Kimbrough died at the scene.
On March 8, a fiery three-vehicle crash on Interstate 805 claimed a motorist’s life. Nataliee Gonzalez, 26, got into the pileup about 4:20 a.m. that day while heading north in Sorrento Valley, officials said. The wreck sent Gonzalez’s sedan into a guardrail and a concrete barrier near Nobel Drive and left the car in flames, according to the medical examiner. She died at the scene.