Crime & Safety

Coroner IDs Woman Killed Running on I-5

The county coroner has revealed the identity of a woman who got out of a car and was hit and killed on the freeway Wednesday.

The woman who exited a vehicle, ran across the center divider of interstate 5 and was hit by an oncoming car has been identified.

Linda Von Trapp, 52, of Huntington Beach, was pronounced dead at 9:45 a.m. at Mission Hospital after the accident, according to the Orange County Coroner. She was born Nov. 24, 1960, according to the coroner's report.

The coroner estimates Von Trapp was injured at 9:14 a.m.

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