Investigators believe two cars were racing when an unidentified motorist hit a jogger who crossed against the light and immediately fled the scene.
According to the San Diego Police Department, a call came in shortly before 5 a.m. on December 5, 2024, reporting the collision in the intersection of Nimitz Boulevard and W Point Loma Boulevard. Responding officers located the victim, who was pronounced dead at the scene.
Witnesses say a black 2018 BMW was traveling southbound on Nimitz Boulevard and appeared to be racing with a white Ford Mustang. Both were observed traveling upwards of 60mph in a 45mph zone.
The driver of the BMW fled the scene, but the vehicle was found unoccupied less than two hours later by U.S. Navy police officers in the 3500 block of Canon Street.
Ocean Beach was originally a Kumeyaay Native American fishing village. The first European settlers called the area Mussel Beach, a name that stuck until 1887 when Billy Carlson and Albert E. Higgins renamed and developed the area.
For many years, O.B. was known for beach attractions, such as the stunning eight-acre Wonderland Amusement Park, which opened on July 4, 1913, on the corner of Voltaire and Abbott. It boasted a large roller coaster, dance pavilion, menagerie, roller skating rink, merry-go-round, children’s playground, a petting zoo with a variety of animals, including 500 monkeys, and 22,000 outlining lights.
Many O.B. community activists are determined to preserve the area’s uniqueness by fighting chain stores. In the 1970s, community protests led a chain of donut stores to drop its plans to open a store in O.B. But in 2001, an organized grassroots effort attempted unsuccessfully to block Starbucks from opening a coffee shop in Ocean Beach.
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