SAN BERNARDINO: Fatal crash kills pedestrian; triggers arrest
SAN BERNARDINO: Fatal crash kills pedestrian; triggers arrest
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A man was fatally struck by a vehicle in San Bernardino and the driver was arrested on suspicion of driving drunk, police said.
The victim, a 34-year-old San Bernardino man, was walking south pushing a shopping cart along the west side of Harrison Road in the 2300 block at 8:52 p.m. Monday, June 15, when Rudy Guzman, 69, of San Bernardino, struck him heading south in a 2006 Chrysler van, said San Bernardino police Lt. Rich Lawhead in a news release.
Guzman continued driving for a few hundred feet running a red light at Highland Avenue and entering the Perris Hills parking lot where he hit a parked car and then a tree, the lieutenant said.
The victim, whose name was withheld until the family can be notified, was pronounced dead on the scene, the San Bernardino County coroner announced.
Guzman was found to be drunk and arrested on suspicion of vehicular manslaughter. He was booked into West Valley Detention Center and bail was set at $250,000, jail logs show.
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