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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.
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.
At least two lanes on eastbound Interstate 8 at Lake Murray Boulevard are blocked due to a multi-vehicle crash.
The crash happened just before 5:15 p.m., and authorities' response has prompted the closure of at least two lanes, backing up traffic for several miles.
The roadway was cleared shortly before 6 p.m.
The cause of the crash is under investigation.
Escondido police arrested a man suspected of crashing a stolen van into another car, then running away Tuesday afternoon.
Richard Berumen, 38, of Escondido, was taken into custody on suspicion of felony hit-and-run causing injury and vehicle theft, police said.
A man called police shortly after 1 p.m. and said he’d just seen his stolen Toyota Sienna van being driven at Valley Parkway and Ash Street, police said. The man recognized it from its broken headlight even though it had the wrong license plate, Lanigan said.
An 18-year-old skateboarder suffered serious injuries Saturday night when he rode into an intersection and was hit by a car in the Lake Murray neighborhood, San Diego police said.
The driver of a Nissan sedan was heading west on Navajo Road when the skateboarder started crossing the road at Cowles Mountain Boulevard against a red light, police Officer David Stafford said.
The two collided and the skateboarder suffered open leg fractures and scrapes, Stafford said. Paramedics took him to a hospital. The car driver, a woman in her early 20s, was not injured.
One person was injured Friday morning when two semi-trucks and one or two other vehicles collided at Carroll and Miramar roads, where San Diego police blocked several lanes.
The crash occurred about 10 a.m. Paramedics took one person to a hospital with possibly serious injuries, police Officer Jim Johnson said.
Traffic lanes were blocked in both directions of Miramar Road and on northbound Carroll Road during an investigation, police said.
One driver was killed and another was injured in a collision Thursday at the intersection of Wichita and East Washington avenues, El Cajon police said.
A vehicle heading eastbound on Washington collided broadside with a vehicle headed northbound about 2:20 p.m., police said. Both vehicles had significant damage, he said.
The driver of the northbound vehicle died at the scene. The other driver was transported to a hospital with significant injuries that are not life-threatening.
Emergency crews were at the scene of a multi-car crash on north Interstate 5 near Via de la Valle in Del Mar involving at least four vehicles.
The crash seemed to have been caused by the slick roadways.
At 5 a.m., there was a report of a crash involving a Lincoln Continental that went down an embankment and became submerged in water.