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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