A man was killed after falling off the cliffs at Black’s Beach on October 22^nd. 43-year-old Nestor Revilla Hernandez was walking along a 300-foot cliff when witnesses saw him fall approximately 50 feet. The witnesses contacted authorities, and lifeguards and firefighters used a helicopter to bring a paramedic to the victim on the cliff. They brought Mr. Hernandez down to the beach and then transported him to Scripps Memorial Hospital in La Jolla. He was pronounced dead a short time later.

OCTOBER 23, 2008 — San Diego Police have reported a fatal high speed accident early this morning in Scripps Ranch. The driver, a 21-year-old woman who has not yet been identified, was travelling east on Pomerado Road when she lost control of her car and hit a tree shortly after 1:15 a.m. The impact reportedly caused the woman to be ejected from her car. She was pronounced dead at the scene of the crash. 

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OCTOBER 23, 2008 — San Diego Police reported three people were injured last night in a San Diego speeding accident on Epsilon Street near National City last night.  The accident happened at around 11 p.m. The driver was speeding and lost control of his Chevrolet sedan when he reportedly hit a dip too fast, causing the car to hit several parked cars. The 24-year-old male driver fractured his hip, the female passenger in the front seat broke her jaw, and another female passenger in the back seat complained of chest pain.  All three were taken to a local hospital for treatment, police reported.  

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OCTOBER 22, 2008 - A suspected drunken driver escaped injury in a Carlsbad train accident last night.  His car stalled on the tracks of Carlsbad Village Drive, according to a county sheriff’s lieutenant. The driver of the car was able to exit his car before it was hit by the approaching freight train, but was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence of alcohol. The sheriff’s department is continuing to investigate this San Diego train accident.

OCTOBER 22, 2008 - The California Highway Patrol has reported the body of a woman was found lying on southbound 805 this morning, at approximately 1:15 a.m. The body was found in the slow lane of I-805 near the SR-163 split. They believe the woman, whose injuries were so bad they could not determine her age, is the victim of a hit and run auto accident.   Witnesses or anyone with information on the woman’s identity are asked to contact the CHP’s San Diego office.

OCTOBER 22, 2008 — Police have reported a crash involving a police patrol car this morning in City Heights, leaving two police officers with minor injuries.  The intersection accident occurred shortly before 7:30 a.m. at Home Avenue and Euclid Avenue this morning.  The patrol car was apparently broadsided by another vehicle, whose driver was not injured.  The cause of this San Diego intersection accident is still being investigated.

Delta Enterprises has announced today that they are voluntary recalling infant cribs made between 1995 and 2007, after two infants died. This latest defective product recall involves nearly 985,000 drop-side cribs with Delta’s “Crib Trigger Lock with Safety Peg” and 600,000 cribs with Delta’s “Crib Trigger Lock with Spring Peg.” The United States Consumer Product Safety Commission (U.S. CPSC) has confirmed two infant deaths caused by defective drop side cribs.  The Delta crib recall is being conducted in cooperation with the CPSC.

The effected “safety peg cribs” were sold between December 2005 and September 2007 at mass retailers including K-Mart, Wal-Mart, and Target. These cribs may be commonly sold secondhand as well.  If the safety peg is missing, the crib can disengage, causing a possible entrapment or suffocation situation. The “spring peg crib”, due to a defective design, could cause a similar risk of entrapment and suffocation. The spring peg (located at the base of each crib leg), could stop working after many uses, causing the drop side to detach from the crib. The model numbers can be found at the top of the mattress support board.

Model numbers of recalled safety peg cribs (Crib Trigger Lock with Safety Peg):

4320, 4340, 4500, 4520, 4530, 4532, 4540, 4542, 4550, 4551, 4580, 4600, 4620, 4624 (production dates January 2006 through November 2007), 4640, 4660, 4720, 4735, 4742, 4750 (production dates January 1995 through December 2000), 4760, 4770, 4780, 4790, 4820, 4840, 4850, 4860, 4880, 4890, 4892, 4900, 4910, 4920, 4925-2, 4925-6, 4930, 4940, 4943, 4944, 4947, 4948, 4949, 4950, 4958, 4963, 4968, 4969, 4980.

Model numbers of recalled spring peg cribs (Crib Trigger Lock with Spring Peg):

4340, 4343, 4520, 4600, 4620, 4624, 4625, 4629, 4660, 4665, 4720, 4750, 4751, 4850, 4855, 4857, 4880, 4920, 4925-2, 4925-2B, 4925-6, 4980, and 8605.

Delta Enterprises is providing free repair kits for the cribs through their website, www.cribrecallcenter.com.   The recall does not affect any cribs currently in retail stores.

Estey & Bomberger, LLP is a San Diego defective products law firm with offices throughout the state of California dedicated exclusively to the representation of personal injury victims, including victims of defectively designed and negligently manufactured products and children’s injuries.  If you would like a free case evaluation with an attorney on a personal injury or defective product matter, please call us at (800)672-1036.

OCTOBER 20, 2008 — The Marin County coroner’s office has identified the victim of a cliff fall from near the Point Bonita Lighthouse in Marin Headlands as Adrian Macias, 27, of San Diego.  The incident occurred at about 11 p.m. on Friday. Macias was walking in Marin Headlands with his friends when he fell 200 feet to his death.  The United States Coast Guard responded to a 911 call and recovered the body in rocks below the cliffs at around 11:40 p.m.  An autopsy revealed that the victim died of a massive blunt force injury, according to a spokeswoman for the coroner’s office.

OCTOBER 20, 2008 — The Red Cross is working to relocate residents of a condo damaged when a car crashed into it Saturday afternoon in San Diego.  Police reported that a car was travelling on Carmel Mountain Road when it went off the road, striking a light post and a tree before slamming into a condo 50 feet below at 11011 Via Asti in San Diego.  The accident happened around noon. Witnesses reported that they thought the car was speeding between 70 and 80 miles per hour, a violation of the 40 mph speed limit on Carmel Mountain Road.  Both the male driver and his female passenger were injured slightly in the San Diego auto accident. Police took the driver to the downtown police station for alcohol testing.  Nobody was hurt inside the damaged condominium.  

OCTOBER 20, 2008 — Families and friends are mourning the loss of a teenager tragically killed in an early morning pedestrian accident Sunday in Chula Vista. The San Diego county medical examiner has identified the Chula Vista teenager as Eric Hudika, 17.  Hudika was a student at Otay Ranch High in Chula Vista. The fatal pedestrian accident that took Hudika’s life happened at around 4:10 a.m., when Hudika was struck by a car while crossing the eastbound lanes of Olympic Parkway in Chula Vista. Responding emergency crews pronounced Hudika dead at the scene.  The driver of the vehicle that struck Hudika was Rogelio Villalobos, 23, of Chula Vista. Vilalobos was not arrested, but police are investigating the cause of this Olympic Parkway pedestrian accident, according to a Chula Vista police spokesman.