A 57-year-old Irvine woman has been killed in a Newport Beach hit-and-run bicycle accident, according to a news report.
Newport Beach police said that Dr. Catherine Campion Ritz, who served as president of Greater Newport Physicians for 18 years, was riding her bicycle north on Newport Coast Drive when she was hit from behind by a black pickup truck. The driver fled the scene, and witnesses described the truck as possibly a black 2001-2004 Toyota Tacoma with substantial damage to the right front end.
Ritz was transported to Mission Hospital Regional Medical Center in Mission Viejo, where she died several hours later. Police recovered the pickup truck involved in the hit-and-run and arrested Michael Jason Lopez, 39, of Anaheim on charges of vehicular manslaughter with gross negligence.
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