Authorities have publicly identified five people who lost their lives over the last couple of weeks to San Diego County traffic crashes.
The most recent of the roadway fatalities took place about 11:55 p.m. Saturday, when a vehicle struck Alexander Leroux, 57, on India Street near Vine Street in the Middletown neighborhood of San Diego, according to the county Medical Examiner’s Office. Paramedics took Leroux to UCSD Medical Center in Hillcrest, where he was pronounced dead shortly after arrival, the agency reported.
Last Wednesday, about 5:30 a.m., 21-year-old Esteban Rodriguez of Spring Valley was fatally injured when the northbound sedan he was driving veered off state Route 125 south of SR-94 and struck a tree, according to the Medical Examiner’s Office. Rodriguez died at the scene.
Shortly before 4:30 a.m. on 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, Eleanor Anslow of San Diego was walking across Mission Gorge Road in the San Carlos area for an unknown reason when several vehicles hit her about 4:45 a.m. on Nov. 19, according to the county agency. Anslow, 38, died at the site of the crash.
Late on the morning of Nov. 18, a motorist was fatally injured in a collision in a Jamacha 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 medical examiner 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, San Diego police Officer Sarah Foster said. Prewitt Starkes was pronounced dead at a hospital six days later, the county agency reported.