Elderly Man Dies from Injuries After He's Hit by Car

An 84-year-old man died after he was struck by a car while crossing at a Cathedral City intersection, a police sergeant said Wednesday.

The incident occurred at 5:48 a.m. Tuesday at Landau Boulevard and McCallum Way, said Cathedral City police Sgt. Dane Dickson.

There was no designated crosswalk where the man was walking, but “any intersection is a crosswalk,” Dickson said. It was dark at the intersection.

The pedestrian was transported to Desert Regional Medical Center where he was pronounced dead four hours after the accident, the sergeant said. The man’s name has not been released pending notification of relatives.

The woman driving the Chrysler 300 vehicle that struck him stopped and called police, Dickson said. She was on her way to work.

The incident remained under investigation, he said.

Meanwhile, the Riverside County coroner’s office has identified a pedestrian fatally struck by a vehicle in Palm Springs Saturday evening as 60- year-old Michael Kozmiuk of Riverside.

Kozmiuk died about 6:20 p.m. Saturday at Desert Regional Medical Center, less than an hour after the crash was reported in the 1400 block of East Ramon Road, according to the Riverside County Coroner’s Office. Kozmiuk was crossing the street when the vehicle struck him, according to Palm Springs police.

Alcohol was not a factor in the crash, and no arrests were made at the scene, according to police.

The California Highway Patrol was handling the investigation.

--By City News Service.