SAN DIEGO (KGTV) – A man was run over by a trash truck and killed on a downtown San Diego street early Tuesday morning.
The fatal collision occurred at around 5:20 a.m. at Sixth Ave and C Street, several yards from the Fifth Avenue trolley station.
San Diego Police said a man “crawled from the west sidewalk of 1000 6th Avenue into the roadway” but was then run over by a trash truck that was heading southbound on the same street.
The victim, identified by police as a man 30-40 years of age, was pronounced dead at the scene.
Police said the driver of the private trash truck was a 59-year-old man.
The incident forced the closure of southbound Sixth Avenue at B Street for several hours.
