Victims in fatal Midway intersection crash identified

SAN DIEGO

Authorities on Monday released the names of the man and woman killed when a pickup hit a Midway District median, went airborne then landed atop the victims' family minivan.

Ahmed Mazin Salah Alrawi, 23, and Suad Alsamarai, 81, died at the scene of the crash, just after 9 p.m. Saturday at Sports Arena Boulevard and Rosecrans Street, the Medical Examiner's Office said.

Alrawi and Alsamarai were in the back seat of their family's 2015 Toyota Sierra when it was hit while stopped at a red light, the Medical Examiner's Office said. Authorities were not immediately able to say if the two El Cajon residents were related.

Three others were injured in the crash — two people in the minivan, and the driver of the Toyota Tacoma that slammed into it.

According to San Diego police, the Tacoma was speeding as it headed west on Sports Arena and hit a median. The pickup went airborne and landed on top of the stopped minivan, which had been headed north on Rosecrans.

The pickup driver sustained broken bones and other injuries, police said. They did not say how badly hurt the two survivors in the minivan were.