A 27-year-old man was struck by a car and fatally injured early Tuesday morning after he had been in a collision and got out of his own vehicle on the San Bernardino (10) Freeway in Pomona.
Joseph Christopher Texas of Pomona died about 4:30 a.m. near Fairplex Drive, according to the California Highway Patrol and the Los Angeles County coroner’s office.
According to the preliminary investigation, the man was driving a Toyota Corolla on the eastbound San Bernardino Freeway when his car rear-ended a UPS big rig driven by a 48-year-old Aliso Viejo man, and the car came to rest near the center divider, according to the CHP.
The Corolla was disabled and Texas got out and was standing on the roadway when he was struck by an eastbound Toyota Prius driven by a 46-year-old Baldwin Park man, the CHP reported.
“The force of the impact propelled the pedestrian over the center divider and into the westbound lanes of I-10,” according to a CHP statement.
Texas was pronounced dead at the scene.
The driver of the Prius and a 23-year-old man who was a passenger in the car sustained moderate injuries and were taken to Pomona Valley Hospital for treatment, the CHP reported.
Two westbound vehicles crashed at the site, possibly when the motorists tried to avoid hitting the body, a CHP officer at the scene said.
The carpool and No. 1 lanes of the eastbound San Bernardino Freeway and carpool and Nos. 1 and 2 lanes of the westbound San Bernardino Freeway were closed while an investigation was conducted.