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A pedestrian was killed early Sunday morning in Old Town when he was run over by several vehicles on Interstate 5, the Medical Examiner's Office said.
The man, between 25 and 35 years old, was in the southbound lanes of the freeway north of Old Town Avenue when he was hit about 3:15 a.m., the office said.
He was dead when authorities arrived.
The victim’s name was not released.
A 70-year-old man was flown to a medical center with life-threatening injuries when the vehicle he was driving overturned and pinned him inside Sunday morning, fire authorities said.
The man was driving on Little Gopher Canyon Road near Old River Road when the vehicle flew off the road and landed on its roof about 7:15 a.m., said a spokesman for the North County Fire Protection District.
It took firefighters about 40 minutes to free the driver from the vehicle.
The victim was airlifted to Palomar Medical Center in Escondido with life-threatening injuries.
An injury crash blocked multiple lanes on the lower deck of the Bay Bridge for about 40 minutes this morning, according to the California Highway Patrol.
The crash was reported at about 9:20 a.m. and involved four cars in the eastbound lanes of the bridge near Treasure Island, CHP Officer Kevin Bartlett said.
At least one person suffered minor injuries in the crash, which initially blocked the four left eastbound lanes, Bartlett said.
Two of the lanes opened by about 9:50 a.m. and the roadway fully reopened about 10 minutes later, according to the CHP.
Four people died and another was in critical condition following a crash in Orange County that left a vehicle severed into two parts early Saturday, officials said.
Authorities responded to the crash around 1:30 a.m. near the southbound 5 Freeway off-ramp at El Camino Real in San Clemente, according to the Orange County Sheriff’s Department.
Investigators said a white BMW was traveling at a high speed when it crashed into a light pole and tree, ejecting three males and one female. They were pronounced dead on arrival, officials said.
Speed and weather appeared to play a role in a crash that left five teenage girls injured -- two of them critically-- in Orange County late Saturday, officials said. Authorities responded just before 11 p.m. when a 2006 Mercury C230 hit a curb, went up an embankment and struck a tree on Melinda Road in Rancho Santa Margarita, according to the Orange County Sheriff’s Department and Orange County Fire Authority. Preliminary investigation shows that slick weather and high speed may have contributed to the crash, officials said.
A 15-year-old boy was taken to the hospital with a serious head injury after being hit by a vehicle Thursday afternoon, a Cal Fire official said.
The teen was riding a BMX-style bike near Jamacha Road and Helix Street about 4:40 p.m. when the crash occurred, a Cal Fire Capt. said.