Caregiver Walking to Bus Stop Dies after Being Hit by As Many as Eight Vehicles near Paradise Cove

• Sheriff’s Department Requests Aid of Witnesses and Other Drivers

BY ANNE SOBLE

Daylight saving times might have been a factor in a traffic fatality on Pacific Coast Highway Monday morning, as the extra hour of early darkness meant two sisters who worked overnight shifts as caregivers for a Malibu resident had to catch the bus to go home before sunrise.Amelia Ordona, 74, was reportedly killed on impact after being hit by one westbound car, then was hit repeatedly by as many as another seven vehicles, as she attempted to walk across the highway to the bus stop at Paradise Cove.The Lost Hills Sheriff’s Station reports that Ordona was hit first by a 2006 Honda Accord driven by Jay McNamara, 48, of Los Angeles, at about 6:25 a.m.That impact “catapulted” the woman’s body into the eastbound lanes of PCH where she was hit by other vehicles, some of which reportedly kept going.Ordona’s 67-year-old sister, Amparo Pabalan, was also hit and sustained injuries that are described as “not considered serious,” according to the official accident update.A Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department investigation is still underway but no one has been cited, and the expectation is that no culpability would be determined due “to the lighting, dark clothing [of the victims], and roadway conditions” noted in the statement by Lt. Scott Chew.The two women are downtown residents and the specifics of Ordona’s death are starting to be detailed in media in the Southland Filipino community. The sisters are from Panay and have numerous family members in the area.Some of their relatives have begun to publicly express concern that no one has been determined to be responsible in connection with Ordona’s death.These family members are reported to be discussing possible legal action and questioning how the drivers could be absolved of culpability, inquiring why one fatality is determined to be an accident and another becomes a case of vehicular manslaughter.PCH was closed between Kanan Dume Road and Winding Way for five hours on Monday while the field investigation was conducted. The road was reopened at 11:30 a.m.The Lost Hills Sheriff’s Station requests that anyone who might have witnessed the incident or unknowingly struck Ordona in the eastbound lanes contact LASD Traffic Investigator Vanessa Barnard at 818-878-5559.