Victims of fatal San Diego-area traffic crashes identified

Authorities have publicly identified seven people killed in recent weeks in San Diego-area traffic accidents.
On Sunday, two people were killed in a crash that occurred shortly before 1 a.m. when a Volkswagen Eos sedan crashed into the back of a Jeep Liberty on a South Bay freeway transition ramp, according to the county Medical Examiner’s Office and California Highway Patrol.
The collision on the connector from westbound state Route 54 to southbound Interstate 5 sent the Jeep plunging off the bridge and into the Sweetwater River below. Rescuers pulled the submerged SUV from the water, and found both occupants deceased.
They were identified Ignacio Pedroza, 60, who was driving the SUV, and his passenger, 53-year-old Monica Pedroza, both of Chula Vista, the medical examiner reported. The relationship between the victims remains unclear, a representative of the county agency said Tuesday.
The man driving the Volkswagen, Douglas Allen Guyton, 61, was arrested on suspicion of driving while intoxicated and murder, authorities said.
Three days earlier, separate traffic crashes led to two deaths in the San Diego area.
At about 9:45 p.m. Thursday, 20-year-old Christopher Golembieski of Kings Mountain, North Carolina, crashed the motorcycle he was riding on northbound Interstate 5 near L Street in Chula Vista and was then struck by several vehicles, according to the county agency. Golembieski died at the scene.
At about 2 a.m. that day, 30-year-old Charles Welcome was hit by a car while standing in the roadway on West Point Loma Boulevard near Famosa Boulevard in Point Loma Heights, the medical examiner reported. Welcome died before paramedics could take him to a hospital.
A pedestrian was killed in Kearny Mesa on March 18. At about 7:30 a.m. that day, a vehicle struck Jeffrey Ramsey Jr., 35, on eastbound state Route 52 near Convoy Street, according to the county agency. Paramedics took Ramsey to Sharp Memorial Hospital, where he died from his injures nine days later.
Shortly after 3:30 p.m. on March 11, William Roth, 86, was gravely injured in his hometown of Escondido when the car he was driving collided with another vehicle at South Iris Lane and West El Norte Parkway, the medical examiner reported. Roth died at Palomar Medical Center four days later.
On March 10, a school bus hit 69-year-old Rene Steiner of San Diego at Paseo Montalban and Via Cima Bella in Rancho Penasquitos as he was walking his dogs, according to the county agency.
Steiner was hospitalized before being transferred to a La Mesa hospice facility, where he died Saturday. Steiner’s pets were not injured, police said.