NORTHRIDGE : Jaywalker Struck, Killed by Car

By HENRY CHU

March 23, 1993 12 AM PT

A Van Nuys man was fatally struck by a car while jaywalking in Northridge, police said Monday.

Martin Mendoza Arriola, 25, was illegally crossing Roscoe Boulevard just west of Balboa Boulevard about 11:15 p.m. Sunday when he was hit by a car traveling east at 35 m.p.h., said Officer Victor Colello of the Los Angeles Police Department. Arriola was dead when officers arrived.

The driver of the car, Vincent Abraham Charles, 40, of Burbank, was unhurt. He was not cited in the accident, Colello said.

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Henry Chu

Henry Chu first joined the Los Angeles Times in 1990 and worked primarily out of the San Fernando Valley office before moving to the foreign staff in 1998. He served as bureau chief in Beijing from 1998 to 2003, Rio de Janeiro from 2004 to 2005, New Delhi from 2006 to 2008 and London from 2009 to 2014. He was a 2014-15 fellow at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard. From 2016-19 he was international editor at Variety magazine. A graduate of Harvard University, Chu returned to The Times in March 2020 as deputy news editor based in London. He left in 2024.

NORTHRIDGE : Jaywalker Struck, Killed by Car

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