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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.
Two men suffered injuries when they crashed their vehicle into North Lake in Irvine.
The incident occurred around 9 p.m. Friday. The car was traveling southbound on Yale Avenue when it struck a retaining wall, went airborne and landed in the lake. The car was fully submerged upside down.
The two men, in their early 20s, were able to get out of the car and swim to the shore. They both suffered moderate injuries. They said they were the only occupants in the car at the time of the crash.
A 43-year-old Escondido man was killed in a crash Friday morning in San Bernardino, authorities said.
Tobias Gonzalez Lezama was driving a semi-truck with a trailer west on the Interstate 10 overpass off ramp to Interstate 215 when the vehicle struck the guard rail about 10:45 a.m., according to the San Bernardino County Coroner's Office.
Lezama suffered traumatic injuries in the collision and was pronounced dead at the scene, authorities said.
The crash is under investigation
A 25-year old Poway man died after his SUV crashed on an El Centro freeway early Friday morning, CHP officials said.
The man has been identified as Daniel Boe, said an Imperial County coroner’s official.
Boe lost control of his 1994 Jeep Grand Cherokee while traveling westbound on Interstate 8, west of Forrester Road, said a CHP Officer.
He drove into the dirt center divider and his SUV overturned on eastbound lanes of I-8 and landed on its roof on the shoulder on the other side of the freeway.
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.
Rain may have contributed to a series of collisions that closed down the transition lanes of the eastbound Foothill (210) Freeway in Pasadena early Thursday, according to the California Highway Patrol.
Three different collisions occurred overnight, one which involved multiple big rigs and closed the eastbound 210 two-lane tunnel connector just after 11:30 p.m. Wednesday.
A man was struck and killed on the westbound Foothill (210) Freeway in Pasadena at Windsor Avenue early Wednesday, authorities said. The incident is being investigated as a possible suicide by the Pasadena Police Department.
The California Highway Patrol received a call at approximately 3 a.m. informing them of a pedestrian down on the freeway.
Minutes before, police were called about a disturbance at a Jack in the Box near the 210. The body found on the freeway matches the description of the person involved in that incident, CHP said.
Interstate 40 was shut down in both directions in the Ludlow area in the Mojave Desert following a massive gas spill.
A semi-truck carrying liquefied petroleum gas liquid natural gas (according to Accident Data Center comment from Ken below) drifted into the median, landed in a ditch and overturned, spilling the gas.
Caltrans said the freeway is expected to be shut down until at least noon between Hector and Ludlow roads.
The route is heavily traveled by semi-trucks. Area residents reported smelling the spilled gas, but no evacuations were ordered.
A pedestrian was struck and killed on the northbound 405 Freeway at Getty Center Drive early Wednesday morning.
The incident was reported at 5:38 a.m. The male victim, later identified as Scott Belkin, 52, was declared dead at the scene.
Only one lane is open at this time due to the investigation. Traffic was backed up past Wilshire Boulevard.
It was unclear why the man was walking on the freeway. No further information was immediately available.