Countywide
Forty-six people, including two in San Diego County, were killed on the state’s highways over the Labor Day weekend, the California Highway Patrol said Tuesday.
Traffic deaths statewide rose from 30 last year, but dropped from four in San Diego County, the agency said.
Simon Donnelly, 25, of Huntington Beach died Sunday when his motorcycle slammed into a pickup near Ramona.
The CHP said Donnelly was traveling about 65 m.p.h. in a 35 m.p.h. zone when he tried to take a curve on San Vicente Road just east of Wildcat Canyon.
Also Sunday, a 40-year-old Danish woman was killed and 11 people were injured in a three-car accident on Interstate 5 near La Costa. Rita Korfgaard was dead at the scene, the CHP said.
The agency said it had 80% of its available officers working to target speeders and drunk drivers along I-5, I-15 and other state highways during the three-day holiday.
Although the number of people cited for speeding was not available, the CHP said, officers arrested 2,447 people statewide for driving under the influence, 187 of them in San Diego County.
Last year, the agency made 154 arrests locally for driving under the influence.
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