REGION — Authorities have publicly identified five men who recently died in traffic accidents across San Diego County.
The latest fatality occurred on Wednesday morning on a desert road east of Volcan Mountain. Fregoso Lopez, 24, was jogging along a dimly lit stretch of Di Giorgio Road in his hometown of Borrego Springs when he was struck by a northbound pickup truck shortly after 5:30 a.m., according to the county Medical Examiner’s Office and the California Highway Patrol. Lopez died at the scene.
Five days earlier, Jose de Jesus Mendoza Velazquez, 47, suffered fatal injuries when the sedan he was driving veered out of a traffic lane on southbound Interstate 805 near state Route 54 in National City and struck an SUV parked on the shoulder, the county agency reported…