Santa Rosa, CA : Vehicle overturns killing pedestrian in downtown Santa Rosa on Tuesday, January 20, 2015

A woman standing on a downtown Santa Rosa street corner Tuesday afternoon was struck and killed by an SUV that careened into her after it collided with a car in the intersection, police said.

The Santa Rosa woman, 73, died after being trapped under a Ford Explorer that had overturned onto her after the crash at about 2:30 p.m. at B and Third Streets, across from the busy Santa Rosa Plaza and a block west of Courthouse Square.

Her name was withheld pending notification of her family.

“As far as we can tell, she was just standing on the corner,” Santa Rosa Police Sgt. Mike Numainville said. “Sadly, she was just in the wrong place at the wrong time.”

In the minutes after the crash, rescue personnel worked feverishly with a pneumatic inflation device and wooden blocks to lift the Ford Explorer off her, but she died at the scene.
Two men, drivers of the Ford and a Volvo, were taken to Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital with what appeared to be minor injuries, Numainville said. Neither vehicle had any passengers.

The Explorer driver, Daniel Borbely, 72, of Santa Rosa, was helped out of his vehicle by bystanders after it came to rest on its roof, Numainville said.

Both he and Santa Rosa resident David Nelson, 94, the Volvo driver, were cooperative with the investigation, police said. No one had been cited.

The fatality was the first pedestrian death in Sonoma County this year, according to police and Press Democrat records. There were six in all of Sonoma County last year, four in Santa Rosa.

A wire hand cart with several stuffed plastic bags attached to it was left at the scene next to the woman on the well-trafficked corner, in front of Luther Burbank Savings and down the block from the transit mall. Police said it was the victim’s.

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Pedestrian killed when vehicle overturns on top of her in Santa Rosa