SECOND FATALITY
ON THE ROADWAYS
OF DANA POINT

DANA POINT-- On September 11th, a human life was lost on the roadways of Dana Point. The second in two weeks. David Simpson, 38, was visiting the area from Kern County, and was in the process of bicycling from San Diego up the coast. At 7:00 PM, Simpson was heading north past the walking bridge, when he was hit by a van driven by Lyn Dague, 56, from San Juan Capistrano. Mr. Simpson was killed instantly.

Dague, who suffers from diabetes, was taken to the Samaritan Hospital in San Clemente; he may have had a seizure that caused the accident. A week earlier, Orange County's Major Accident Reconstruction Team was called out to investigate an apparent suicide when a man from San Clemente died after driving his car off the cliffs near Gable Street, in the Capistrano Beach neighborhood of Dana Point.

SOURCE: Sheriff's Blotter, Dana Point News, 17 September, 1998.

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