BURBANK : Motorists Run Over Body on Freeway; None Stop
Many motorists struck a person who dropped from an overpass on the Golden State Freeway in Burbank on Monday, battering the body into an unrecognizable state, but none who hit the victim stopped, authorities said.
It was the second such incident on the Golden State Freeway in a month.
It was unclear whether the 12:55 a.m. death in the southbound lanes below the Olive Avenue overpass was a suicide, said Highway Patrol Officer Rich Obregon.
On Oct. 31, an El Cajon man was struck on the Golden State Freeway just north of Santa Clarita and then hit by several vehicles whose drivers did not stop. As in Monday’s incident, it was dark and authorities said some motorists might not have known they had struck a person and that others might have driven off because they feared that they were responsible for the death.
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