A 79-year-old man was critically hurt in downtown San Diego on Monday after he was hit by his 75-year-old friend who mistook the gas pedal for the brake and struck his friend, San Diego police reported. 

A little before twelve, the 75-year-old driver dropped off his passengers and was trying to park by the intersection of Sixth Avenue and F Street when his foot accidentally hit the gas. The vehicle struck one of the passengers, who was right by the car. 

The victim was injured with a fractured skull and was transported to the hospital, police reported.

A 54-year-old man died in an industrial accident Thursday while in a lumber storage yard in Otay Mesa.

The man was moving 20-foot-long wooden beams from a truck when the whole load of beams dropped on top of him at the yard located on Marconi Drive near Michael Farady Drive about 9:15 a.m., San Diego police reported. 

The force of the hit plunged the man backwards and he struck his head and as a result had severe head injury, stated San Diego Fire-Rescue Department spokesman Maurice Luque.

He was announced to be dead just moments after.  

The man killed in the accident usually drives the truck filled with lumber, officials reported. Investigators are working to find out what caused the lumber to fall down. 

The name of the man has not yet been announced.

An armed man with a blue ski mask covering his face, held up a convenience store in Solana Beach Friday night, and left with an unknown amount of money, sheriff’s officials reported.

The robber walked inside the Qwik Korner Deli located on Highway 101 north of Via de la Valle around 8:30 p.m. and demanded that the clerk drop to the ground. He then broke into the cash register and took off with the money.

About 40 guests at an Oceanside motel had to evacuate and stay the night at Mission Elementary School after a fire that sparked in an alley quickly consumed the motel and ruined its electrical system, fire officials stated. 

A trash bin and couch burst into flames in an alley off Surfrider Way around 12:20 a.m. Saturday and the fire traveled fast to the Beachwood Motel, Oceanside Fire Battalion Chief Bob Cotton added.

A guest was hurt in the incident, receiving burns on his arms, in his attempt to put out the fire before firefighters came to the scene. He received medical aide at the location. 

The building and the electrical system suffered a medium amount of damage causing the motel to have to close down, Cotton reported. The Red Cross hosted a shelter for 38 people at Mission Elementary School.

The source of the fire is not yet known.

A 25-year-old man was stabbed 15 times in the stomach after he got into an argument with a group of men in the car on the road in City Heights early Saturday, police reported.

The confrontation started on University Avenue near 54th Street around 1:30 a.m., when the victim and his friend began to argue with a group of five men in another car, San Diego police stated.

The victims kept driving, thinking they had gotten away from the other car, and pulled over at Sterling Court and Altadena Avenue for a cigarette break. The men in the other car then walked up to the men and one stabbed the victim in the stomach over and over, police stated. 

The victim was transported to a hospital for medical treatment and is recovering.  

Gang detectives are assisting in the case.

A 14-year-old boy was a victim of a stabbing Friday night when he was traveling through an apartment complex parking lot, authorities reported. The boy was stabbed in the chest. 

San Diego police reported that a group of 10 to 12 men of various ages walked up to the boy on 35th Street near Polk Avenue in the City Heights West neighborhood around 5:45 p.m. The men exchanged some gang signals at the boy and then stabbed him and ran away.  

The boy was transported to a hospital and is expected to recover. 

Police officer David Stafford reports that there were no details regarding what the men looked like.

 A 24-year-old bicyclist was transported to the hospital after he was hit by a semitrailer truck Friday morning.

The accident was called in around 10 a.m. at Orange and Fairmount avenues in City Heights, San Diego police stated. 

The semi with a trailer attached to the back was starting to turn to the right from eastbound Orange onto Fairmount when the bicyclist came up on the right side of the car and then fell off his bike. He was stuck underneath the semi’s front right tire, resulting in severe injury to his lower body. He is believed to live.

Police are giving a reward of up to $1,000 for any tips that help them in finding and arrested the thief responsible for stealing eight cars that were sitting out front of apartment complexes on Thursday night close to the Amaya Drive trolley station, police reported. 

The thefts, the first called in at 5 a.m. Friday, took place either Thursday night or early Friday morning, reported La Mesa police Lt. Dan Willis. The thief took everything from purses, to iPods and a GPS unit, which was mostly visible from the outside of the car, he added. 

In seven cases, the car windows were bashed in. How the the thief entered one car is still unknown.

The cars were parked outside apartment complexes located by Amaya Drive and Fletcher Parkway and Campina Drive near Amaya Court.

Anyone with information is asked to call La Mesa Police Department at (619) 667-1400, or Crime Stoppers anonymously at (888) 580-8477.

Four customers were deprived of water after a pipe broke in the water line on Friday morning, but the break was supposed to be repaired and working again by 6 p.m., an Otay Water District official reported.

The break took place by state Route 94 and Lyons Valley Road around 8 a.m., stated Mark Watton, the district’s general manager. A 2-inch diameter pipe connected to a 14-inch main combusted, he stated. A few other customers in the location said there was low water pressure.

One mobile home experienced some flooding. Insurance claims adjusters were estimating the damage done, Watton stated.