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A 21-year-old man suffered a fractured pelvis in a traffic collision Friday night at a University City intersection, San Diego police said.
He was driving southbound on Towne Centre Drive and turned left in front of another vehicle at Executive Drive, police said.
The driver of the other vehicle, a 45-year-old man, was not injured. He had been headed northbound on Towne Centre.
A driver in a stolen car who police said struck and killed a bicyclist Monday night in Chula Vista was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence, a police official said.
The collision was reported about 5 p.m. on East J Street, near Arthur Avenue. An investigation is under way, and police advised motorists to avoid the area for the next five hours.
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.
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.
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.
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.