An unknown motorist sent a 57-year-old woman to the hospital when, on February 6, 2025, she tried to cross the street in La Playa.
According to the San Diego Police Department, the woman was crossing from west to east in the north crosswalk of the 3700 block of Talbot Street at approximately 7:16 p.m. when an unknown vehicle traveling eastbound on Talbot Street turned north onto Canon Street and hit her.
The driver fled the scene without stopping to assist the victim. Emergency responders transported the woman to a hospital for treatment.
La Playa is a bayfront neighborhood in the Point Loma community of San Diego, California, bordered by San Diego Bay to the east, Naval Base Point Loma to the south, the Wooded Area neighborhood to the west, and Point Loma Village/Roseville-Fleetridge to the north. It lies across a channel from Shelter Island.
The original area known as La Playa played an important role in the early history of San Diego. In his book Two Years Before the Mast, Richard Henry Dana Jr. describes how sailors in the 1830s camped on the beach at La Playa and hunted for wood and rabbits in the hills of Point Loma.