Saul Castro, 63 of Mira Loma, died due to injuries sustained in a motorcycle accident in southwestern Fontana. According to San Bernardino’s County Coroner Department, Castro was travelling in the west bound direction on Slover Avenue just west of Redwood Avenue on his 2007 Harley Davidson motorcycle on July 10, 2010 around 6:03p.m.
An unidentified truck driver caused an accident resulting in the death of two people in Antioch. Bay City News Reports that this auto accident occurred on east bound Highway 4 when the driver of a Ford F-250 truck made an unsafe lane change. The truck hit a Honda that then lost control and hit a motorcycle killing the motorcyclist and his passenger. The driver of the Honda was hospitalized with major injuries. The pickup truck’s driver fled from the scene of the accident.
A motorcycle accident in San Dimas on June 6, 2010, killed Michael Smith, 36, and seriously injured an 11-year-old boy. The other driver, Ryan Ferreira, 39, ran from the scene of the traffic accident. Ferreira made an unsafe lane change near Smith’s Honda CRB1000 motorcycle on a transition road between the southbound 57 Freeway (SR-57) and eastbound the Interstate 10 Freeway (I-10) and caused the collision.
Enrique Jose Salas, 46, was killed in a motorcycle crash that occurred at the intersection of Silver Saddle Street and Turner Avenue in Ontario on June 13, 2010 at 11:15 a.m. Salas was believed to be riding his Honda motorcycle southbound on Turner when he was struck by a Ford Ranger pickup that had lost control while making a left turn.
A motorcyclist sustained critical injuries after he was hit by Mario Dominguez, a 39-year old car driver from La Puente, at the intersection of Valley Boulevard and Hacienda Boulevard in the City of Industry on May 22, 2010. Dominguez collided with a biker while making his car turn left and fled from the accident scene.
On the morning of Monday May 10, 2010, a four year old Tulare boy was killed when both the boy and the driver of a dirt bike were thrown away from their vehicle. The young boy then was run over by another dirt bike that was following the first.
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 Riverside County man was hospitalized Monday, May 1, 2010, with serious injuries due to a motorcycle accident on State Route 76 (SR-76) in the Pala area of San Diego County. He is reported to have burns over almost all his body.
The San Diego Union Tribune brought to light a fatal motorcycle accident when Carl Davis Jr., 28 of San Diego, lost his life in a fatal motorcycle accident. He was riding a 2007 CVR 6000 motorcycle eastbound on Highway 78, when suddenly his motorcycle crossed into westbound traffic. Davis had a head-on collision with a 1976 Chevrolet pickup truck driven by a 47-year-old San Diego man.
Motorcycle accidents increase every year as the weather changes and Spring comes. Even in sunny California, when the weather gets warmer and the sun comes out, the volume of motorcyclists on the road increases—and so do motorcycle accidents.