Burbank Woman Dies on Highway
A Burbank woman was killed when she crawled onto an interstate highway near the California-Nevada border and was struck by four different vehicles, police said.
It is not known why Cynthia Marylin Rouse, 38, crawled Tuesday night onto the southbound lanes of Interstate 15 about seven miles north of the state line, said Trooper Steve Harney of the Nevada Highway Patrol.
“She was on her hands and knees” when she crawled into traffic at 10 p.m. and was hit by two 18-wheel trucks, a car and a van, Harney said.
The driver of each truck pulled over to report the accident to NHP troopers, but the driver of the car and van “both fled the scene and may have not known they hit her,” Harney said.
The truck drivers will not face charges, he said.
About 45 minutes before the accident, a state trooper stopped to assist Rouse, who had stopped her car on the right shoulder of I-15. She told the officer she pulled over on the highway because her car was overheating, Harney said.
Rouse was traveling with three dogs. The animals were turned over to animal control officers in Nevada, Harney said.
The accident backed up traffic for more than three hours, he said.
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