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A kayaker who died on Lake Sutherland Saturday was identified Monday as a 57-year-old Ramona man .
Leonard Kevin Jones' body was recovered from the lake by San Diego Lifeguard divers Sunday morning, according to the San Diego County Medical Examiner's Office.
A city worker noticed an upside down kayak at Lake Sutherland Dam just after 1:30 p.m. Saturday, a San Diego County sheriff's Lt. said.
The city worker told authorities the man, who frequently fishes at the lake, had a heart condition, another sheriff's official said.
A three-vehicle collision left one driver dead on state Route 76 in the Bonsall area Thursday, the California Highway Patrol said.
The crash occurred about 6:50 a.m. at Gird Road during a light rain.
A 36-year-old Oceanside man died after witnesses stopped, pulled him from his wrecked Kia Sephia and started CPR on him, CHP Officer Jim Bettencourt said.
He said witnesses saw the Kia driver going east at high speed until he lost control of the car on a curve. He clipped a westbound Nissan Altima and skidded sideways into the westbound lane.
The motorcyclist who died Saturday after crashing into an SUV and a pole in San Marcos was identified as Mark Robert McHose, the Medical Examiner’s Office said Sunday.
The 47-year-old of Encinitas was eastbound on Mission Road when he collided with a northbound GMC Yukon at the Pico Avenue intersection about 1:30 p.m., authorities said.
McHose was thrown from his bike, which then crashed into a light pole.
He was taken to Palomar Medical Center and died shortly after arriving.
A U.S. Marine was killed and three others were injured in a multi-vehicle crash early Saturday morning on Interstate 8 in near state Route 163, authorities said.
The crash was on the westbound side of I-8 about 5 a.m., according to the CHP. One of the vehicles crashed into a barrier and another three cars slammed into it.
The Medical Examiner's Office stated that person killed in the crash, later identified as Ricky Jones, was a 20-year-old, active-duty Marine.
Authorities said the man whose truck was hit by a train Thursday night is facing a DUI charge. The light rail Sprinter was carrying 37 passengers when it struck an empty truck near Vista. The driver of the truck said it stalled on the tracks and he apparently tried to warn the oncoming Sprinter train by waving it down. However, the train struck and heavily damaged the truck. None of the people on the train or the vehicle driver were hurt.
A rollover crash Tuesday afternoon prompted authorities to shut down lanes on westbound Interstate 8 to northbound Interstate 5.
The single-vehicle crash happened just before 5 p.m. on the connector from westbound I-8 to northbound I-5, according to the California Highway Patrol.
A Sig Alert was issued at about 5:10 p.m. due to the response by emergency crews.
Just before 6 p.m., all lanes were cleared and the Sig Alert was lifted.
A man died Saturday after his pickup truck crashed into a telephone pole in Grantville.
The crash occurred at about 3:20 p.m. in the 4300 block of Twain Avenue near Mission Gorge Road.
Police say an 80-year-old man, later identified as Albert Najera, 80, was driving a 1999 Toyota pickup truck eastbound on Twain Avenue when he may have had some kind of medical issue. The truck then hit two cars and a telephone pole, police said.
The man died at the scene. No other injuries
Northbound lanes of State Route 125 at San Miguel Ranch Road in Bonita were shut down Friday morning after a fatal chain-reaction crash involving as many as four cars.
The rollover collision that demolished a Jaguar and left the driver, later identified as Christian Franco, 37, ejected on the roadway was reported about 1:45 a.m., the California Highway Patrol said.
It appears that the driver of the Jaguar lost control of the car and crashed into the guard rail. Drivers in the other vehicles could not avoid the wreckage and crashed into it, the CHP said.
The elderly man killed in a hit-and-run crash in San Ysidro Sunday was identified as Alonso Flores Pacheco, the Medical Examiner’s Office said Monday.
Pacheco, 81, was walking south across East San Ysidro Boulevard when he was struck by a westbound car, San Diego police said Sunday.
Pacheco died at the scene, police said.
The driver fled west from the crash on East San Ysidro Boulevard in a car witnesses described as a dark, 1990s-model, four-door sedan with oxidized paint on its roof.