Santiago Piovillasenor Aganzaman, 23, of Carlsbad was riding a bike when he was hit and killed by a southbound Sprinter Train in Oceanside at 5:05 PM on December 23, 2008, according to a story on San Diego 6.
The collision occurred at the Wisconsin Avenue grade crossing in Oceanside at 5:05 p.m., according to Cpl. Mark Cook of the San Diego Sheriff’s Department. . . The man . . . tried to ride his bicycle across the grade crossing as the warning system was just beginning to operate.
According to the train’s engineer, Aganzaman didn’t appear to see the train coming.
[Link: San Diego 6]
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Santiago Piovillasenor Aganzaman.
His friends and family called him, Diego. What the article didn’t say was that he had struggled for years with bio-poloar disease. He had just come out of a group home a few months previous and was doing very well. He was step brother to my daughter. We received the news on xmas eve.
The article also did not say that his organs were harvested almost immediately after the accident…only his kidneys could not be donated.
His death was the gift of life to someone waiting for a heart transplant, and another waiting for a liver transplant. His skin went to a burn victim and his eyes, to help someone see again.
He had two older brothers, a step brother and step sister. His mother and fathers families were large. Many will miss him.
He was a beautiful boy, a sweet child, a kind and decent young man. He struggled for so long. Once he said that he didn’t understand this world and its rules and it hurt to be here. I pray that he has found peace. He saved lives the night he died. It would have made him happy.
Nice story. He was nice boy. Everybody miss him because his mind.