A 48-year-old man was fatally struck by an intoxicated SUV driver while walking in a traffic lane on the south end of Lake Elsinore, authorities said Monday.
Benjamin Douglass of Lake Elsinore perished shortly before 10 p.m. Sunday after he was hit on South Grand Avenue, just north of Marvella Lane, according to the California Highway Patrol.
Officer Brian Seel said that Douglass was walking “within the southbound lane of Grand … directly in the path of” traffic for reasons still under investigation…