Five victims of recent San Diego County crashes identified
Apr 15, 2025
Authorities have identified five people killed in recent San Diego County traffic crashes.
On Friday, a motorcycle crash in La Jolla left a 24-year-old man dead, the county Medical Examiner’s Office reported. Samy Allal of Oceanside was riding north on Torrey Pines Road when his Yamaha struck a ce
nter divider barrier shortly after 9 p.m., according to the medical examiner.
Allal was ejected onto the southbound side of the street, where a car ran over him. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
On Thursday evening, a Maryland resident was killed when a GMC pickup truck careened off Harbor Island Drive and plunged into San Diego Harbor. Anne Confer, 53, was one of three occupants of the southbound pickup truck that crashed into the bay at high speed about 9 p.m. and sank, according to the county agency.
A Harbor police dive team pulled Confer and a man out of the sunken pickup and took them to hospitals, where they were pronounced dead. The man’s name has not been released. Another woman who had been in the truck managed to get out as it was filling with water and was brought to shore by good Samaritans.
On Wednesday, a 56-year-old driver died in a solo crash in Lakeside. Atilano Velasquez Gutierrez of El Cajon was heading west on El Monte Road when the Toyota pickup truck he was driving veered off the street and struck a tree, the medical examiner said. He was ejected from the vehicle and died at the scene.
Shortly after 10:30 p.m. on April 6, a 21-year-old man was killed in a crash on Interstate 805 in National City. Montriel Gregory of San Diego was traveling north in a Tesla sedan that struck a median wall and a guardrail just south of state Route 54 and then caught fire, the county agency said. Gregory died at the scene.
On April 4, Susie Gonzalez, 66, was walking across the street at E Street and Woodlawn Avenue in Chula Vista when a Toyota sedan struck her.
Paramedics took Gonzalez, a Chula Vista resident, to UCSD Medical Center in San Diego, where she died from her injuries six days later. ...read more read less