Madeline Afasene,Rachquel Andersen Obituary, Death; – Authorities have publicly named six individuals who lost their lives in traffic accidents in the San Diego area over the past week, including two separate incidents that each resulted in two fatalities.
The latest incident occurred around 7:45 a.m. on Monday, when a westbound Ford SUV veered off a winding section of Gopher Canyon Road in Bonsall and crashed into a ditch near Valley of the King Road, as reported by the San Diego County Medical Examiner’s Office.
The driver, 47-year-old Madeline Afasene from Oceanside, was pronounced dead at the scene. Three of the traffic fatalities happened on Sunday, according to the agency. At approximately 2:30 p.m., Rachquel Andersen, 43, was driving an Acura SUV when it collided with a pickup truck while heading east on Betsworth Road at Lilac Road in Valley Center. An ambulance transported Andersen, a resident of Valley Center, to Palomar Medical Center in Escondido, where she was declared dead.
About 12 hours earlier, a head-on crash on Interstate 15 in Escondido resulted in the deaths of two drivers. Just before 2:30 a.m., 33-year-old Jesus Rivera Robles, whose address is unknown, was operating a Volkswagen sedan that collided head-on with a BMW driven by 36-year-old Diego Jose Gutierrez of Escondido, who was traveling north on the southbound side of the freeway near Deer Springs Road, according to the medical examiner.
Both individuals died at the scene.
The county agency also reported that the remaining two fatalities were the result of a single accident. Shortly before 12:30 a.m. on Saturday, 22-year-old Abraham Arana from San Diego lost control of his vehicle on an elevated transition ramp from eastbound state Route 94 to northbound SR-15 in the Grant Hill area, approximately one mile east of Balboa Park.
The car struck a freeway sign before plunging off the bridge and landing on the westbound side of SR-94. Both Arana and his passenger, 22-year-old Amanda Silva-Flores, also from San Diego, died before paramedics could transport them to a hospital.
