14-year-old boy hit and killed by driver on foggy Mira Mesa street ID'd
Authorities Wednesday publicly identified a teenage boy who was fatally struck by an SUV last weekend on a fog-shrouded Mira Mesa street.
Jayden Stewart, 14, was walking in the roadway at the intersection of Camino Ruiz and Hydra Lane when a 40-year-old man driving northbound in a 2020 Chevrolet Traverse hit him at about 8:30 p.m. Saturday, according to the county Medical Examiner’s Office and San Diego police.
Paramedics took Jayden, a San Diego resident, to Scripps Memorial Hospital La Jolla, where he was pronounced dead, according to the county agency.
The area was foggy at the time of the traffic fatality, police reported.
Police do not suspect the driver to have been driving under the influence.
