The crash occurred around 2:19 p.m. on November 15 on San Pablo Avenue at Waldo Avenue.
El Cerrito, CA. – 66-year-old Donna Revecho died weeks after she was struck by a vehicle near an intersection in El Cerrito, the Contra Costa County Coroner's Office reported.
The crash occurred around 2:19 p.m. on November 15 on San Pablo Avenue at Waldo Avenue.
According to the El Cerrito Police Department, Revecho was hit by a car for an unknown reason.
Responding emergency crews found the woman unresponsive in the roadway.
The victim was airlifted to a local trauma center for treatment. She later died from her injuries on December 4.
The driver involved remained at the scene and cooperated with investigators.
El Cerrito PD said they would present the case to the Contra Costa County District Attorney's Office for possible criminal charges against the motorist.
In El Cerrito, the total number of reported crashes annually has fluctuated between 82 and 217 in the period from 2018 to 2022, with only one fatality recorded in 2019 during that timeframe. In 2022 specifically, the city recorded 36 total fatal and injury victims. Crash data indicates that nearly all incidents in the city are intersection-related, with a notable 70% occurring at unsignalized intersections. The most frequent crash types are sideswipes, broadsides (angle collisions), and rear-end collisions. A significant safety concern in El Cerrito involves vulnerable road users (pedestrians and bicyclists), who were involved in five of the ten total fatal and severe injury crashes (2018-2022 data). A primary crash factor for many pedestrian incidents is drivers failing to yield the right-of-way in marked or unmarked crosswalks.
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