Teen tagging freeway median dead after being run over by several vehicles
Posted: 03/29/2009 05:41:58 PM PDT
RUBIDOUX, Calif. — A teenager seen tagging the center divider of a freeway in Rubidoux was killed after being hit by a car and run over by several other vehicles.
The California Highway Patrol says 17-year-old Blake Locko of Riverside was pronounced dead at the scene on Highway 60 early Saturday. Locko and another person were standing in the westbound carpool lane when he was struck by a Saturn sedan, flew over the divider into the eastbound carpool lane where he was hit by several vehicles.
The driver of the Saturn was taken to a hospital with moderate neck injuries.