Man killed on Mission Road Thursday identified

The name of a 73-year-old motorist who died in a three-vehicle pileup in Fallbrook on Thursday was identified today by the Medical Examiner's Office.

Patrick Joseph Germon died of blunt-force injuries, according to the medical examiner.

Three pickup trucks collided at the rural North County intersection of South Mission Road and Green Canyon Road, fatally injuring Germon and sending two other people to a hospital.

The pileup occurred shortly after 9:30 a.m., when Germon, who was driving a 2008 GMC Sierra waiting in a line of cars at the intersection's stop

sign, drove around the vehicle in fro...