Authorities have released the names of five people who lost their lives in San Diego-area traffic accidents, including three people struck by vehicles.
Shortly before 1:30 p.m. Monday, a compact car veered off the roadway in the 4200 block of Bonita Road in Bonita and struck landscaper Bisael Lopez Hernandez, 46, as he worked on the roadside, according to the county Medical Examiner’s Office. He died at the scene.
On Sunday, a vehicle struck and killed a pedestrian in Pacific Beach. Jorge Garcia Jr. of Alpine was walking across the roadway at Grand Avenue and Kendall Street when he was hit by an eastbound SUV just before 3 p.m., according to the medical examiner. Garcia, 31, died before paramedics could take him to a hospital…