Bicycling Monterey 💚🌎🌍🌏A Monterey County landscaper is grieving the avoidable death of his grandson, 22-yr-old Alejandro Covarrubias, who was killed by a hit-and-run driver while changing a flat tire. https://www.gofundme.com/f/honoring-my-brothers-memory-qccts?attribution_id=sl:dd7874ca-e9b7-4337-862b-43fa75b6e8bd&lang=en_US&ts=1772397247 As reported by KTLA-5, authorities say the suspect could possibly have been driving an #Amazon truck. https://ktla.com/news/local-news/family-mourns-young-man-killed-in-hit-and-run-while-changing-tire-on-5-freeway/
Alejandro's tragic death is an example of why California Assembly Bill 390 was passed in 2025. AB 390 extends protections that were already given to police officers, highway workers, Caltrans employees and other people doing official work on the highways to ANYONE outside of their vehicle—as reported by Streetsblog California, University of California at Berkeley Safe Transportation Research and Education Center (SafeTREC), and others. SafeTREC found that, in 2022, over 1,200 individuals nationwide were killed due to drivers maneuvering too close or fast near parked cars, including 221 in California.
