An unidentified motorist was killed in a head-on car accident that occurred on July 19, 2011, around 6:38 a.m. at Golden Era Studios in Gilman Hot Springs. According to the responding California Highway Patrol Officers, a maroon Volvo and a white Chevy truck was involved in this head-on wreck. One of the drivers was pronounced dead at the accident scene around 7:11 a.m.
20-year-old Bryan Hodges was killed in an Orange County motorcycle accident that occurred on July 11, 2011, around 5:22 p.m. at Euclid Street and Country Hills Drive in La Habra. The collision happened when a car traveling northbound on Euclid started to make a left turn onto westbound Country Hills. At this time, Hodges and another motorcyclist were traveling southbound on Euclid. The vehicle turned left in front of the two bikers. The other biker avoided the collision but Hodges crashed into the vehicle, driven by a licensed juvenile.
A Harley Davidson motorcyclist suffered serious injuries when he was struck by an SUV on June 20, 2011, around 10:23 a.m. at 1617 East Ball Road in Anaheim. According to responding Anaheim Police officials, a Toyota RAV4 changed lanes from the westbound No. 2 lane and struck the motorcycle in the right lane.
Kevin Heggstrom, 51, a Westminster High School technician was killed in a fatal Riverside County motorcycle accident that occurred on April 19, 2011, morning on a desert road near El Centro. According to the Riverside County Coroner’s Office, Heggstrom was riding his 2004 BMW motorcycle when he failed to negotiate a curve on Borrego Salton Seaway, ran off the road, and crashed into boulders due to unknown reasons. The accident happened on the roadway into Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, just west of State Route 86.
Nicholas Joseph Knoth, 20, of Huntington Beach, was riding his motorcycle northbound on May 8, 2010, at about 8:11 a.m. on Edwards Street and Homer Street in Westminster when he appeared to have moved in front of a 18-wheeler big-rig truck and lost control of his motorcycle, according to Westminster Police officers.
A 50-year old man was killed when the motorcycle he was riding was hit by an SUV. The motorcyclist has been identified as Lawrence Joseph Barrett of Youngsville, NC. The accident occurred at 4:50 p.m. on April 11 along Elm Avenue near the intersection with South White Street.