Woman Killed Crossing Street While Talking on Phone

Fox 5 San Diego ^ | March 11, 2011 | staff

[winstonwolf33]

SAN YSIDRO, Calif. -- A pedestrian struck by a car and killed just north of the international border was identified Friday as a 31-year-old Tijuana woman.

Alma Luz Alfaro Gonzalez was crossing the street in a crosswalk at Paseo de las Americas at Siempre Viva Road when she was hit by a tractor-trailer rig making a right turn just after 6 p.m. Thursday, according to the San Diego County Medical Examiner's Office.

San Diego police Officer David Stafford said the woman was talking on her cell phone and ignored a red light.

Witnesses gave aid to the woman and called paramedics, but she died at the scene, the Medical Examiner's Office reported.

[winstonwolf33]

Gotta pay attention, ladies.

[Hodar]

Now we need laws to protect us from walking while talking on a cell phone ...

Oh, the humanity .....

[MIchaelTArchangel]

Nominate her for a Darwin Award ... provided she hasn’t passed on her clearly defective genes.

[trumandogz]

“Goodbye”

[Chuzzlewit]

honestly... I see folks everyday talking on their phone, walking and not paying the least bit of attention to cars. these folks step out into the street, without looking, just expecting cars to yield to their power..

it’s dumb... these are folks with very low survival instinct.

[gorush]

Can you hear me n

[SatinDoll]

I regularly encounter pedestrians who cross against lights, when their light is red and traffic, with a green light, must stop or hit the pedestrian.

Oh yeah, the ped is usually quick to flash that middle finger at the drivers with the right of way.

“Nemesis inexorably follows hubris”.

[Paleo Conservative]

I wonder if her family has been approached by trial lawyers yet?

[Joe 6-pack]

This will be rolled into the statistics as a "Cell phone related traffic fatality" and used to bolster legislation against drivers.

Just like how people who die in fires that were started by cigarettes were also considered "smoking related deaths."

[max americana]

>San Diego police Officer David Stafford said the woman was talking on her cell phone and ignored a red light.<

Red light 1 poor sap 0

[loungitude]

But, but, she KNEW that pedestrians have the right-of-way.

[aimhigh]

Evolution speeded up by cell phones.

[rabidralph]

A little toot would have fixed her.

[b4its2late]

ROTFLMAO

[RichInOC]

One of my favorite commercials ever started like that...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnIjgw5A-iI

[gorush]

:{)

[martin_fierro]

STUNED BEEBER IN TIJUNA ping

[who_would_fardels_bear]

The "silver lining" in this story is that when the Mexicans finally take back California they will have been so Californicated by then that noone will notice the transfer of power.

Well, except for the improvement in soap opera talent...

[muir_redwoods]

Met her death on a road named “Siempre Viva”? Irony

[battousai]

No just laws to protect us from stupid people... maybe instead of breathalyzers for cars, we ned IQ tests for doors... people’s front doors, you don’t get to leave home unless you pass :P