A 79-year-old woman dies after her car plunges about 25 ft from a parking lot at the Aliso Creek Plaza Shopping Center in Laguna Beach, overturns and lands upside down on a busy sidewalk and is taken to Mission Hospital where she is later pronounced dead.The Laguna Beach Police Department is investigating and Motor Corporal Andrew Lopez is asking witnesses to contact investigators while officials say there is no confirmed evidence of drugs, alcohol or a medical emergency at this time.Locals point to a low, deteriorating wooden fence after a similar fatal crash in May 2025 that killed
James Politoski and demand that the city and the shopping center owner replace the barrier with a steel guardrail.