A 60-year-old man was seriously injured in a San Diego car accident, which police say, involved a hit-and-run driver the evening of February 4, 2011. According to a news report in The San Diego Union-Tribune, the injury pedestrian accident occurred on Nutmeg Street near Fountain Place in Escondido. The victim was crossing the street when a full-size white pickup towing a black flatbed trailer struck him. He suffered skull and facial fractures. Police are still searching for the driver responsible for this San Diego hit-and-run accident. Anyone with information is asked to contact Escondido police at 760-839-4470.
My thoughts and prayers are with the 60-year-old man injured in this hit-and-run car accident. I wish him a complete and speedy recovery.
Pedestrian Accident Statistics
According to California Highway Patrol’s 2008 Statewide Integrated Traffic Records System (SWITRS), four people were killed and 55 were injured in Escondido pedestrian accidents. During that same year, 63 fatalities and 998 injuries occurred involving pedestrian accidents in San Diego County.
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