SAN DIEGO
San Diego is paying out $1.5 million to a pedestrian who suffered major head injuries in 2017 when struck by a small car at a La Jolla intersection characterized as highly dangerous in a lawsuit.
Ruben Abagyan, 64, used phrases including “concealed trap” and “illusion and perception of safety” when describing La Jolla Shores Drive at Downwind Way in the lawsuit he filed against the city after he was injured.
The suit says the intersection, near the UCSD campus, features obstructed vision, a lack of warning signals where they are needed and a lack of pavement markings to alert drivers to pedestrians.