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Carlsbad woman sues after being struck by van Once homeless resident nearly lost foot in collision Issa backs lawsuit against military’s vax mandate. A7 Retired O’side fire deupty’s wife dies in plane crash. A7 Solana 101 project to be completed by 2023. A8 Marshall’s plan to bcome a pro surfer comes true. A9 State electoral battlegrounds shift in North County. A10 Carlsbad council adopts organics waste plan. A11 RSF school district pleads to revoke vax mandate. A11 Cyclovia event returns to Encinitas. A11 Encinitas woman a patron of foster youth. B1 Rancho Mirage observatory shifts stargazing online. B1
By Samantha Nelson
OCEANSIDE — Manu McKinley’s life changed in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, but not because of the virus. Rather, it was a vehicle-pedestrian accident that almost took her foot. A video of the incident shows at approximately 9:35 a.m. on May 28, 2020, McKinley entered the crosswalk at the corner of Mission Avenue and North Cleveland Street when she was struck by a white Chevrolet work van making a right turn eastbound onto Mission Avenue. According to the Oceanside Police Department’s collision report, McKinley said she had waited at the crosswalk at the southeast curb of North
MANU MCKINLEY, a formerly homeless North County resident, was struck by a van last year in Oceanside. Courtesy photo
Cleveland Street for the walk signal before attempting to cross the street northbound when her foot was run over by a van traveling at a “high rate of speed.” “I thought I was dead,” McKinley told The Coast
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News. But the driver of the vehicle, Pishgram Daghestany, a Rancho Santa Fe resident working for HVAC company BH Mechanical, also known as BB Electrical, claimed that McKinley
had run into the intersection and stuck her foot out to be run over as he was making a right turn. According to the report, Daghestany said he knew he had run over McKinley’s foot after feeling the van “slightly raise” and pulled over to the side of the road. Ted Dillon, a pedestrian witness, was waiting at the northeast corner of North Cleveland to cross. When the light turned green for southbound traffic, he said he entered the crosswalk when he witnessed Daghestany hit McKinley with the van. The collision report states the cause of the accident was Daghestany’s violation of McKinley’s rightof-way in the crosswalk. Daghestany was not under the influence, according to the report. McKinley sustained abrasions to her right foot and right elbow and was taken to Scripps Encinitas
for treatment. According to her attorney Mike Emrani, of Los Angeles-based firm Emrani Lawyers, McKinley’s foot was wrapped up and she was sent on her way. “Given she is homeless, they probably wanted to get rid of her,” Emrani said. Although the police report described her injuries as minor, Emrani said the injury was far more egregious. In the weeks following the accident, the injury allegedly grew worse. McKinley’s foot became severely infected, and two weeks later someone found her in a Carlsbad park suffering from gangrene with a host of maggots plaguing her foot. McKinley was taken back to Scripps where doctors wanted to amputate her foot. After begging them to keep her feet attached, medical personnel opted to TURN TO INJURY ON A8
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