DRIVER AND GOOD SAMARITAN KILLED BY PASSING MOTORIST AFTER CRASH

Update April 9, 2018: The good Samaritan who died has been identified as Kenneth Riddle, 46, of El Cajon. He leaves behind a wife and young daughter. A GoFundMe page to help the family has been established where donations can be made.

Update April 11, 2018: The driver who was killed has been identified as Lamont Taylor, 35, of El Cajon.

By Miriam Raftery

April 8, 2018 (El Cajon) – Two good Samaritans stopped to help a driver involved in a solo vehicle collision at 1:20 a.m.  on eastbound I-8 just west of El Cajon Boulevard in El Cajon.  The vehicle had come to rest in the number 2 lane of traffic.

One of the good Samaritans stopped on the right shoulder and ran back to the scene. The other stopped in the center median near the damaged car.  The driver got out and was standing in the number 1 lane talking with the passerby who had stopped on the shoulder, when another motorist failed to see them in the darkness and struck them both.

Both the driver involved in the earlier crash and the good Samaritan sustained fatal injuries, says Officer Travis Garrow with the California Highway Patrol.  An investigation is ongoing.