One driver was killed and another severely injured over the weekend in a late-night series of crashes caused by a motorist driving the wrong way on Interstate 8 near San Diego State University, authorities reported Monday.
The deadly crash took place shortly after 11:30 p.m. Saturday, when a 2009 Toyota Tundra heading west on the eastbound side of the freeway plowed head-on into an oncoming 1996 Honda Civic just east of 70th Street in La Mesa, according to the California Highway Patrol.
Following the collision, the driver of the Tundra, a 24-year-old National City man, got out of his crumpled vehicle, jumped over a center-divider wall and tried to run across the westbound lanes of I-8, where he was struck by a Ford F-150 pickup truck. He died at the scene, CHP public-affairs Officer Jared Grieshaber said.
Paramedics took the 33-year-old Montebello man who had been driving the Honda to Sharp Memorial Hospital in San Diego for treatment of major injuries. The occupants of the Ford were uninjured, Grieshaber said.