Ramona man among dead in Poway pileup that killed 5

San Diego County Medical Examiner’s Office at the County Operations Center. (File photo by Ken Stone/Times of San Diego) Authorities have released the names of nine people who lost their lives in recent traffic accidents, four of them on state Route 67. The San Diego County Medical Examiner’s Office on Wednesday identified the first of five people killed in a fiery three-car collision in Poway Friday. Roberto Martinez Oros, 68, was behind the wheel of a sedan on SR-67 when a truck collided with his vehicle. Sheriff’s investigators said the pickup truck crossed into oncoming traffic at a high rate of speed, hitting the Ramona resident’s Honda Civic before another truck crashed into him from behind. Oros died at the scene. The office has yet to release the names of the other four people who were killed Friday. In the first of the other deaths, Maxwell F. Rouette, 27, was discovered early Sunday lying along a pedestrian path on Buena Creek Road in Vista. Paramedics pronounced him dead at the scene. Rouette’s residence is unknown; he is believed to have been struck by a car. Shortly before 2 a.m. Saturday, a vehicle overturned on state Route 78 near North Las Posas Road in San Marcos and came to rest on a roadside embankment, the office said. A passenger in the car, Caden Chaz Garcia, 19, of San Marcos, died at the scene. At about 11:45 p.m. on July 15, San Diego resident Carlos Torres Castillo, 21, lost control of the car he was driving on westbound Interstate 8 east of Taylor Street, sending it crashing over the center divider and onto the eastbound lanes of the freeway. Doctors pronounced him dead at Scripps Mercy Hospital. A day earlier, a Riverside County man died in a motorcycle crash on SR-67 in Santee, according to the medical examiner. Dylan Thomas Clark, 27, of Menifee was riding to the south shortly before 9 p.m. July 14 when he collided with a pickup truck south of Riverford Road. An ambulance crew took Clark to Sharp Memorial Hospital in San Diego, where doctors pronounced him dead. On the evening of July 13, Aeriel C. Suarez of San Diego was behind the wheel of a vehicle that veered off the street in the 8500 block of Kearny Villa Road and crashed into a tree. Paramedics took Suarez, 22, to Scripps Memorial Hospital La Jolla, where doctors pronounced him dead at about 10 p.m. Shortly after sunrise that same day, the body of Stewart B. Jabro, 48, of El Cajon was found in a vehicle that had crashed down a roadside embankment in the 16300 block of Skyline Truck Trail in Jamul. The time of the accident is unknown, according to the medical examiner. Early on the afternoon of July 12, Daniel W. Richards of Santa Ysabel was driving a northbound sedan that left the roadway on SR-67 near Shady Bend in Ramona and struck a tree. Doctors pronounced Richards, 78, dead at Palomar Medical Center in Escondido at about 5 p.m., roughly 3 1/2 hours after the accident. Three days earlier, a collision on the same highway killed a motorist in his hometown. Jay M. Tharani, 35, of Ramona, was behind the wheel of a sedan that collided with an SUV in the 18000 block of SR-67 shortly before 6 p.m. July  9. He died at the scene. City News Service contributed to this report.