Authorities have publicly identified six people killed in traffic crashes throughout the county over the first few days of 2025, four of them on New Year’s Day. The first two of the deaths occurred late on the morning of Jan. 1, according to the county Medical Examiner’s Office. The victims, 20-year-old cousins Nadia Charles and Joseph Saint Juste Jr., were standing on the southeast corner of Buena Vista Avenue and Broadway in Lemon Grove about 11:15 a.m. when an eastbound Acura sedan collided with a southbound Toyota car in the intersection, then careened onto the roadside and struck them, the agency reported. Saint Juste died at the scene, the agency reported. Charles — who, like Saint Juste, lived with family in Lemon Grove — was pronounced dead at a hospital a short time later. “They were beloved members of the Haitian community, including the Haitian Refugee Community Center, and were full of promise, love and life,” according to a statement on a GoFundMe page supporting their family. “Both Nadia and Junior had survived catastrophic earthquakes, unimaginable poverty, intense violence, and political instability in Haiti. “They journeyed over 3,000 miles to find safety in San Diego County, where their families worked tirelessly to provide them with a brighter future. Tragically, at just 19 and 20 years old, their lives were cut short by a reckless and careless driver.” The next deadly wreck occurred shortly before 6 p.m. the same day, when a Hyundai sedan struck Marcos Perez Domingo, 45, as he was riding a bicycle at Encinitas Boulevard and Valley Park Way in Encinitas, according to the medical examiner. Paramedics took the gravely injured Encinitas resident to Scripps Memorial Hospital La Jolla, where he died two days later. About a half-hour after that fatal collision occurred, 33-year-old Akash Kasibhatla was hit by a Toyota sedan as he was walking in the northbound lanes of Interstate 5 near Birmingham Drive in Cardiff-by-the-Sea, the county agency reported. Kasibhatla died at the site of the accident. His place of residence was not released. The next traffic death took place on Friday. About 5:30 a.m., police officers responding to a report of loud noise that sounded like a car crash found Joshua Summerhill, 31, in a Jeep SUV had struck a tree in a roundabout at Hospitality Point Park on Quivira Way in the Mission Beach area. Summerhill, whose community of residence remains unknown, died at the scene, the agency reported. The final fatality took place on Sunday. About 3:30 a.m., 29-year-old Tayden Fosness of Escondido was riding a motorcycle that crashed into a disabled Toyota sedan at the site of an earlier collision on northbound Interstate 15 near Miramar Way in San Diego. Fosness died from his injuries before paramedics could transport him to a hospital.