A woman soliciting handouts in the middle of a North County thoroughfare Friday was struck and killed by a vehicle whose driver had just given her money.
The motorist was stopped for a red light in an eastbound lane on West Mission Avenue at North Quince Street in Escondido Friday morning when the panhandler, 27-year-old Amanda Porter, stepped off a center median and approached his pickup truck, which was towing a trailer filled with sand and concrete, according to police.
After the driver gave her some cash, Porter tried to return to the center divider but stumbled and fell as traffic began to move again, Officer Scott Christensen said. The man’s trailer then ran over her, he said.
The woman was taken to Palomar Medical Center, where she was pronounced dead.
The involved motorist was cooperative with investigators and was not cited over the accident, Christensen said.
—City News Service
