A man who was impaired drove a car onto a sidewalk in San Diego on Monday morning, killing three people and injuring six others in an area where homeless people often seek shelter, the authorities said. The crash occurred just after 9 a.m. local time in the East Village neighborhood of downtown San Diego, in an underpass beneath the San Diego City College campus. The man, identified by the police as Craig Voss, 71, of San Diego, drove a station wagon onto a sidewalk in the 1500 block of B Street and slammed into the victims, Chief David Nisleit of the San Diego Police Department said at a news conference. “Officers got there and saw multiple people down, multiple people struck by a vehicle,” he said. The chief said that Mr. Voss had been arrested and was expected to face three counts of vehicular manslaughter, five counts of causing great bodily injury while committing a felony and one felony count of driving while impaired.

Source: New York Times March 15, 2021 19:07 UTC