San Diego County Medical Examiner’s Office. (File photo courtesy of San Diego County News Center)
Authorities have publicly identified six people who lost their lives over the last two weeks to San Diego County traffic accidents.
The most recent of the deadly crashes took place at about 11:55 p.m. Saturday, when a vehicle hit Alexander Leroux, 57, in the 3500 block of India Street in the Middletown district, the county Medical Examiner’s Office reported. Paramedics took Leroux to UCSD Medical Center in Hillcrest, where he was pronounced dead shortly after arrival.
That accident occurred less than six hours after another pedestrian fatality in San Diego, authorities said. At about 6 p.m. Saturday, a 2011 Jeep Liberty struck 83-year-old Eduardo Sanchez in the 200 block of East San Ysidro Boulevard, leaving him with a brain bleed, a pelvic fracture and other trauma, according to police and the medical examiner. Paramedics took the San Ysidro resident to UCSD Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead the following evening.
At about 5:30 a.m. last Wednesday, 21-year-old Esteban Rodriguez of Spring Valley was fatally injured in his eastern San Diego County hometown when the northbound sedan he was driving veered off state Route 125 south of SR-94 and struck a tree, according to the county agency. Rodriguez died at the scene of the accident.
Shortly before 4:30 a.m. Nov. 20, Guillermo Pagan, 55, was gravely injured when an eastbound SUV struck him as he was walking on state Route 94, west of Hillside Drive in Jamul, the county agency reported. Pagan died before paramedics could take him to a hospital.
A day earlier, yet another local pedestrian traffic fatality took place, this one in the San Carlos district. Eleanor Anslow of San Diego was in the roadway in the 7500 block of Mission Gorge Road for an unknown reason when several vehicles hit her at about 4:45 a.m. on Nov. 19, according to the medical examiner. Anslow, 38, died at the site of the accident.
Late on the morning of Nov. 18, an octogenarian motorist was fatally injured in a collision in a Jamacha-area intersection. Lucy Prewitt Starkes, 89, was making a left turn from westbound Imperial Avenue to Viewcrest Drive when her Volkswagen Jetta was struck by an oncoming Ford Excursion shortly after 10:30 a.m., according to the county agency and the San Diego Police Department.
Paramedics took the San Diego resident to Scripps Mercy Hospital for treatment of extensive injuries, including brain bleeds, a cervical spinal fracture and a broken orbital bone, SDPD Officer Sarah Foster said. Prewitt Starkes was pronounced dead at the Hillcrest-area trauma center six days later, the medical examiner reported.
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