San Diego-Coronado Bridge Road Rager To Be Sentenced Wednesday

Sentencing is scheduled Wednesday for Phillip Eggers, 25, who was convicted of child abuse after he drove erratically on the San Diego-Coronado Bridge and hit a motorcycle with his girlfriend's 3-year-old son in the car.

At an earlier hearing, Deputy District Attorney Julie Lynn said Eggers was driving erratically on southbound Interstate 5 near the Coronado Bridge about 5:30 p.m. May 18 with his girlfriend and her 3-year-old son in the car.

Eggers almost missed the transition road for the bridge, cutting across lanes and almost hitting another car, Lynn alleged.

Words were exchanged between two people on a motorcycle and the defendant, and Eggers directly steered his BMW M3 into the motorcycle, ejecting the driver and passenger onto the pavement on the bridge, according to Lynn.

Eggers continued driving into Coronado, followed by an off-duty San Diego police officer who had witnessed the collision, according to the California Highway Patrol.

The defendant pulled to a stop on Glorietta Boulevard, where the officer confronted him and held him at gunpoint until Coronado police arrived and took him into custody.

—City News Service contributed to this report.