Tiffany Zamora,Jorge Garcia Jr Obituary, Death; – Authorities have publicly named five individuals who tragically lost their lives in traffic accidents over the past eight days in the San Diego area.
The latest fatal incident occurred just before 1:30 p.m. on Monday, when a compact vehicle veered off the road in the 4200 block of Bonita Road in Bonita, colliding with landscaper Bisael Lopez Hernandez, 46, who was working on the roadside, as reported by the county Medical Examiner’s Office. Lopez Hernandez was pronounced dead at the scene of the accident, according to the agency’s report.
A day prior, a vehicle struck and killed a pedestrian in Pacific Beach. Jorge Garcia Jr. of Alpine was crossing the road at Grand Avenue and Kendall Street when he was hit by an eastbound SUV shortly before 3 p.m., as stated by the medical examiner. Garcia, 31, succumbed to his injuries before paramedics could transport him to a hospital.
Early Saturday morning, a motorcyclist was killed in an accident on Interstate 5 at the southern edge of Balboa Park, as reported by the county agency. Thom Nguyen, 19, lost control of his motorcycle just after midnight on the northbound side of the freeway near Sixth Avenue, causing it to crash into a roadside barrier. Nguyen fell onto the roadway, where he was subsequently struck by a car. He died at the scene.
At approximately 3:45 p.m. on Friday, 23-year-old Tiffany Zamora of San Diego was driving a sedan that veered into a center median in the 2100 block of Citracado Parkway in Escondido and collided with a tree, according to the medical examiner. Paramedics transported Zamora to Palomar Medical Center, where she was pronounced dead later that afternoon.
On July 22, a vehicle fatally struck 87-year-old Agustina Acosta of Chula Vista in a parking structure in her South Bay hometown. A motorist was navigating a corner in the building located in the 300 block of H Street when his pickup truck hit the elderly woman shortly after 11 a.m., officials reported. Paramedics took Acosta to UCSD Medical Center in San Diego, where she was pronounced dead shortly after her arrival, according to the county agency’s report.
