Crime & Safety
Coroner IDs 3-Year-Old Boy Struck By Car
Juan Ruiz of Encinitas was walking next to his mother when he darted into the street shortly before 7:30 a.m. Friday.
Authorities today publicly identified the 3-year-old boy who was struck and killed as he darted into the path of a car in an Encinitas neighborhood.
Juan Ruiz of Encinitas was walking next to his mother, who was pushing his sibling in a stroller along the 400 block of Encinitas Boulevard near Quail Drive, shortly before 7:30 a.m. Friday when he was struck, according to the San Diego County Medical Examiner's Office and the San Diego County Sheriff's Department.
The driver of a Toyota Camry, a 32-year-old man headed to work, was pulling out of the Essex Heights apartment complex's driveway when the child ran directly into his path on the roadside, sheriff's officials said.
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The toddler wound up pinned beneath the sedan, and the driver and a bystander pulled him out, sheriff's officials said.
The boy was taken to a hospital and died shortly after arrival, the Medical Examiner's Office reported.
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The motorist was not expected to face charges, Deputy David Loe told reporters. --City News Service
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