The San Diego County Medical Examiner’s Office has identified four people who died in the past week following accidents in San Diego, North County and East County.
Just after 1 p.m. Tuesday, Walter Robbins, 86, of San Marcos steered a Toyota pickup past a lowered rail-crossing gate at Enterprise Street and West Mission Road in Escondido, then pulled to a stop on the rails for unknown reasons, officials said.
An eastbound Sprinter train struck the truck. Robbins died at the scene.
Two days earlier, San Diego resident Martin Huber, 37, was struck by a northbound Nissan SUV while trying to run across Interstate 5 near Old Town at about 1:30 a.m., the medical examiner reported. He died before paramedics could take him to a hospital.
Another accident involving a pedestrian, this time in Mission Valley, left a homeless woman dead on Feb. 27.
Kiah Schultz was hit by an eastbound Toyota sedan at about 9:30 p.m. while crossing Friars Road on foot just east of state Route 163. An ambulance took Schultz to Scripps Mercy Hospital in Hillcrest, where doctors pronounced her dead.
Another man, David Serna, 75, died Sunday at Sharp Memorial Hospital in San Diego, where his condition had continued to decline following a Feb. 12 accident, according to the medical examiner’s office.
The La Mesa man was hit by a northbound Volkswagen sedan while walking across the street in the 700 block of North Johnson Avenue in El Cajon, the county agency reported.
City News Service contributed to this report.
