Authorities have publicly identified eight people who lost their lives in recent weeks to San Diego-area traffic accidents, three of them on the same day.
The most recent of the roadway fatalities took place shortly before 6 p.m. last Thursday, when a Kawasaki motorcycle being ridden by Monterey County resident Ivan Johnson, 21, collided with a Nissan SUV on southbound Interstate 5 near Pacific Highway in the Middletown area of San Diego, according to the San Diego County Medical Examiner’s Office. Johnson died at the scene of the crash.
On March 16, Donna Okamoto of Santa Ana was heading west in a Mitsubishi SUV on state Route 76 near Lilac Road in the rural Pala area at about 2:30 a.m. when an eastbound motorist tried to pass another vehicle directly in Okamoto’s path, causing a head-on crash, the medical examiner reported. Paramedics took Okamoto, 58, to Palomar Medical Center in Escondido, where she was pronounced dead…