SAN DIEGO (AP) — A driver plowed through a sidewalk homeless encampment Monday in downtown San Diego, killing three people and injuring six others, authorities said.
A driver plowed through a sidewalk homeless encampment Monday in downtown San Diego, killing three people and injuring six others, authorities said. Craig Voss, 71, was heading through a tunnel underneath a community college campus when he drove his Volvo station wagon up on the sidewalk shortly after 9 a.m., San Diego Police Chief David…
March 16, 2021 |
Three people were killed and six others were injured on Monday when a car drove off the road and into a group of people sheltering under a San Diego bridge, officials said. San Diego Fire Chief Colin Stowell said at a news conference that two of those injured were in critical condition at area hospitals
Police and fire crews responded to the scene near San Diego City College shortly after 9 a.m. Monday to find “multiple people” dead and injured after being struck by a Volvo station wagon that veered completely onto the sidewalk. Fire Chief Stowell called the incident “a very tragic emergency incident that impacts all of us” and said that fire crews “did the best they could with the resources there” in trying to save the lives of those who died. San Diego Police Chief David Nisleit said that officers detained the driver of the car, identified only as 71-year-old man, and are investigating him for possible charges of impaired driving.
A driver plowed through a crowd on a sidewalk under an overpass with homeless tents on a rainy Monday morning in downtown San Diego, killing three people and injuring six others, including two who are hospitalized in critical condition, police said. The driver — whom authorities identified only as a…