San Diego man hit and killed while cycling on the shoulder of the highway

Authorities have released the identity of a 66-year-old man who was fatally struck by a car last week while riding a bicycle alongside Interstate 805 near Otay Valley Regional Park.

Victor Fields of San Diego was driving on the shoulder of the southbound freeway, approaching an exit at Palm Avenue in Otay Mesa, when a Toyota sedan struck him shortly after 7:30 p.m. on May 29, according to the coroner’s office.

Fields died at the scene of the accident, the agency reported.