Victim of fatal ocean-front La Jolla traffic crash ID’d as David Lapensee of Tampa

FILE San Diego County Health Examiner s Office Courtesy San Diego County News Center Government Friday publicly identified the -year-old East Coast man killed when the car he was driving crashed off a bluffside La Jolla street and landed in the Pacific Ocean David Lapensee of Tampa Florida was driving a car that veered off the roadway in the block of Coast Boulevard at about p m Tuesday smashed through a fence and plunged over the edge of a cliff alongside the waterfront according to the San Diego County Diagnostic Examiner s Office After crisis crews pulled Lapensee from the car paramedics took him to Scripps Memorial Hospital La Jolla where he was pronounced dead at about a m Wednesday The cause and manner of Lapensee s death remained under assessment Friday the biological examiner communicated City News Amenity