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Driver Crashes Fleeing Pacific Beach Pedestrian Accident

NBC 7 in San Diego is reporting that a driver was arrested for allegedly causing both a car and pedestrian accident within moments of each other. According to reports, the driver had the car accident after fleeing the scene of the pedestrian accident. The first accident happened around 3:20 p.m. at the intersection of Garnet Avenue and Everts Street, according to Fox 5 in San Diego. While a 25-year-old woman was driving a Nissan Pathfinder through the intersection, she struck a 25-year-old man. “The man sustained a fractured foot, for which he was taken to a local hospital,” San Diego police officer David Stafford told Fox 5. “The woman drove on after striking the pedestrian, but was followed by a witness as she drove several blocks at a high rate of speed while running stop signs.” After she left the first accident scene, the woman struck a car with her…
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Spring Valley Car Accident Ends in Grocery Store

According to NBC 7 in San Diego, a November 3 car accident left a car crashed in the produce section of a grocery store. As shoppers were taking care of some Sunday afternoon shopping at a Spring Valley, California Save-A-Lot, an 85-year-old man drove his car through the front of the store and all the way into the produce section. “It sounded like an explosion,” Wayne Rambo, a Spring Valley resident who was across the street at the time of the accident, told NBC 7. “I thought one of the washing machines in the laundromat exploded or something.” The accident happened shortly before 2 p.m. The 85-year-old had just dropped his daughter off in front of the Save-A-Lot in the 8700 block of Broadway and was going to park the car, but ended up plowing into the store instead. “It looked like a bomb went off because there was glass…
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One Killed, One Arrested in Two University City Car Wrecks

Two separate car accidents on October 23 have left one person dead and another facing DUI and manslaughter charges, according to the San Diego Union-Tribune. In addition to the fatality and the arrest, five people were also injured between the two wrecks, which both happened in University City, California. The first accident happened around 9 a.m. on Genesee Avenue just east of Interstate 5 near Scripps Memorial Hospital La Jolla. Police told the Union-Tribune that a 63-year-old woman was driving a Toyota Corolla south on Genesee, ran a red light and hit a GMC that was exiting the hospital’s driveway heading north. Both drivers were injured in the crash, with the driver of the GMC, a 41-year-old woman, suffering minor injuries and the driver of the Corolla suffering a major leg injury. The second accident occurred just before 10:30 a.m. at the intersection of La Jolla Village Drive and Genesee,…
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