24-year-old woman dies after riding skateboard pulled by vehicle in Santa Ana

SANTA ANA — A 24-year-old woman riding a skateboard and pulled by a vehicle was killed at about 1:30 a.m. Sunday, and alcohol may have been a factor leading up to the crash.

Vanessa Nichole Salcido was found in the street, in a quiet neighborhood of Santa Ana, by Orange County Fire Authority firefighters.

Operators got a call about 1:30 a.m. of a woman that had fallen from a skateboard and was down in the roadway in the 2400 block of North Spruce Street, according to a police incident report. Paramedics rushed her to UCI Medical Center, where she died from her injuries at 1:59 a.m.

“At some point while being pulled, she (the skateboarder) either let go or became separated from the vehicle and fell to the ground resulting in major injuries,” police said.

“The motorist who was operating the vehicle was contacted at the scene and is cooperating with the investigation.”

The Santa Ana Police Department’s Collision Investigations Unit asked anyone who saw the skateboard incident to call them at (714) 245-8200.

The crash was in a residential neighborhood west of Bristol Street, south of Garden Grove Boulevard.