Officials ID victims recently killed in vehicle crashes in San Diego County

Authorities have identified four people who lost their lives over the last 10 days in San Diego County traffic collisions.

The most recent of the roadway fatalities took place at 11:15 p.m. Friday in San Diego, when a vehicle struck Keondre Alejandre, 32, as he was walking across the intersection of Camino Del Rio West and Hancock Street in the Midway District, according to the county Medical Examiner’s Office.

Paramedics took Alejandre to a hospital, where he died the next morning, the agency reported.

Shortly after noon last Wednesday, 66-year-old Debra Villasenor of Alpine was fatally injured when the SUV she was driving veered off a freeway exit from eastbound state Route 52 to Mast Boulevard on the San Diego-Santee border and crashed into a light pole, according to the Medical Examiner and the California Highway Patrol. Villasenor died before she could be taken to a hospital.

Last Monday, a pedestrian was fatally struck by a vehicle as he was walking across a street in Oceanside, the medical examiner reported. An SUV struck Cesar Contreras, 59, at Francesca Drive and Mission Avenue about 6:45 p.m. Nov. 10. The Oceanside resident died at the scene.

On Nov. 7, a 65-year-old man died in a solo car crash on Interstate 5 in Sorrento Valley. John Lim of San Diego had just entered the northbound side of the freeway from Genesee Avenue shortly after 10 a.m. when the Hyundai Sonata he was driving veered across the roadway and struck a center-divider barrier at high speed.

The vehicle then crossed back the other way and hit a freeway sign and a guardrail on the east side of the Sorrento Valley Road off-ramp, a CHP spokesperson said. Lim died before medics could take him to a hospital. The medical examiner ruled the manner of death as natural due to cardiovascular disease.