SM BEACH — A man was killed on Saturday morning after a city truck ran over him while he was lying on the beach.
At about 8:45 a.m., an unidentified 37-year-old man from El Paso, Texas, was lying in the 1800 block of Santa Monica Beach, just north of Pico Boulevard, when a maintenance truck drove over him. He was transported to a local hospital, where he later died. It appears that the man was visiting Santa Monica, police said.
Santa Monica police officers responded to the scene, where they learned that a city worker, while driving a beach maintenance truck northbound while replacing refuse containers, drove over the victim.
The driver of the truck was interviewed at the scene and released pending further investigation. The cause of the collision is under investigation.
Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on August 10, 2005. Read the original PDF.