Two pedestrians killed in separate Sacramento County traffic incidents, coroner says

The Sacramento County Coroner’s Office reported two pedestrians were killed Friday in separate collisions.

A 28-year-old man was hit by a vehicle in the southbound lane of the Capital City Freeway north of El Camino Avenue.

That same day, a 77-year-old man was fatally struck by a vehicle in the eastbound lane of Florin Road, according to the Coroner’s Office, east of Florin Perkins Road in south Sacramento.

Neither victim’s name had been released by the coroner as of early Saturday afternoon.

Nearly 80 people have died in Sacramento County so far this year from traffic incidents, according to data the Sacramento County Coroner’s Office, of whom more than 25 have been pedestrians.

Corey Schmidt

The Sacramento Bee

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Corey Schmidt is a watchdog reporter for the Sacramento Bee, focusing on Folsom, El Dorado Hills and Sacramento County’s eastern suburbs. Previously, he was the government watchdog reporter for the St. Cloud Times in Minnesota. Schmidt received his bachelor’s degree from DePaul University in Chicago and his master’s degree from Yale University.