Authorities have publicly identified four people who lost their lives in recent weeks to San Diego-area traffic accidents — one after driving onto railroad tracks in the path of a train and three while trying to cross busy roadways on foot.
The most recent of the roadway fatalities took place just after 1 p.m. Tuesday, when 86-year-old Walter Robbins of San Marcos steered a Toyota pickup past a lowered rail-crossing gate at Enterprise Street and West Mission Road in Escondido and pulled to a stop on the rails for unknown reasons, according to the San Diego County Medical Examiner’s Office.
An eastbound Sprinter train then struck the truck, the agency reported. Robbins died at the scene…