Pedestrian seriously hurt when hit by car in Costa Mesa

Nov. 16, 2015 8:26 AM PT

A 22-year-old Riverside man was hospitalized in critical condition after a car struck him while he was crossing a Costa Mesa street Saturday night, police said.

The man was leaving the Costa Mesa Courtyards shopping center in the 1800 block of Newport Boulevard when a 2007 Toyota Corolla traveling north on Newport hit him, police said.

“The pedestrian was outside of any designated crosswalk area, and the Corolla was reportedly traveling at a normal rate of speed,” police said in a news release.

Paramedics took the man to Orange County Global Medical Center in Santa Ana for treatment of a traumatic brain injury and a spinal fracture, police said.

Officers interviewed the 61-year-old woman driving the Corolla and released her at the scene. Police said she was cooperative and did not show signs of impairment.

Jeremiah Dobruck

Jeremiah Dobruck was a public safety reporter for the Daily Pilot. He first came to the Pilot as an editorial intern in 2009. After a handful of other media-related jobs, he was hired full-time at the Pilot as a copy editor in 2012. He holds a bachelor’s in journalism from Cal State Fullerton. He left the Daily Pilot in 2016.