Jacquie Kessel is devastated by car vs. pedestrian crash that killed a woman crossing the street on El Camino del Norte near La Quebrada. “Oh my gosh, we lost someone here in our community. We may not know them, but how many times a day did we walk past each other?” Kessel said. “It’s hea rtbreaking. I hurt for her family.” Sheriff’s investigators said the deadly incident happened around 7:30 p.m. Friday night, when a 2025 Nissan Z crashed into the woman.   “It was very fresh,” Kessel said. “Oh my gosh, we lost someone here in our community. We may not have know them, but how many times a day did we walk past each other?” Long-time resident Jacquie Kessel witnessed the aftermath. “It was very fresh. It was very much no one knew what was happening. All you could see was a sea of red and blue and just a ton of vehicles, a ton of enforcement, ambulance, medic, all of it.” Kessel said. El Camino Del Norte serves as a major artery connecting Escondido to the coast without having to take the interstate, though drivers treat the street like a freeway. “I think that’s where a lot of drivers get confused, they treat it like a racetrack instead,” Kessel said. Although the road has a set-speed limit, drivers go very fast. “Ridiculously fast,” Kessel said. Kessel said around sunset hour there’s a lot of road glare when travelling Westbound. “It’s very bright. You know we have that perfect angle with that hill up in the background and it just cuts at a perfect angle every time and it’s blinding for a bit,” Kessel said. That’s why she said more enforcement is needed to remind drivers to lower their speed. “Ticket, ticket, ticket, ticket….let’s do it. Because it’s sad that we have to get to this point,” she said. In February of this year, a biker was hit and seriously injured just three blocks away from where Friday’s crash happened. ...read more read less