REGION — Authorities have publicly identified three men who lost their lives last weekend to San Diego-area traffic accidents.
Two of the roadway fatalities took place on Sunday, according to the county Medical Examiner’s Office. At about 9:15 p.m. that day, 39-year-old Fernando Herrera of San Diego lost control of the motorcycle he was riding on Viejas Boulevard in Descanso, sending the two-wheeler veering off the roadway and into a fence at Merigan Fire Road, the county agency reported.
Herrera died at the scene of the accident.
A state park ranger was chasing Herrera at the time of the deadly crash, officials said. The reason for the pursuit has not been released.
That same day, Quincey Ockletree of San Marcos got into a collision with several vehicles while driving to the north on Interstate 15 north of state Route 76 in Fallbrook, according to the county agency, which did not release the exact time when the accident occurred.
Paramedics took Ockletree to Palomar Medical Center in Escondido, where he died the next morning.
On Saturday, a collision on a street near Sweetwater Reservoir mortally injured a 76-year-old man. David Blaisdell of San Diego was riding in a sedan that crashed into an SUV on Jamacha Boulevard at Pointe Parkway in La Presa shortly before 7:30 a.m., the medical examiner reported.
An ambulance crew took Blaisdell to Scripps Mercy Hospital in San Diego, where he was pronounced dead shortly after arrival.
