Posted on 01/24/2006 9:53:54 PM PST by NormsRevenge
ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) - A motorcyclist driving the wrong way on a freeway died early Tuesday after he struck a car and his body was hurled onto the top of a big-rig truck, officials said.
The incident occurred about 6 a.m. on the westbound lanes of the 91 Freeway, said California Highway Patrol Officer Chris Johnson.
Witnesses said the motorcyclist was traveling in the flow of traffic, pulled onto the shoulder and started driving the wrong way, said CHP Officer Marco DeGennaro.
The motorcyclist was identified by Orange County coroner's office as Walfrido Guzman Cortes Jr., 29, of Anaheim. Cortes was going between 50 and 80 mph when he struck a 2002 Nissan Altima, Johnson said.
The motorcycle burst into flames and Cortes was thrown into the air and landed on top of a big rig's cargo box, Johnson said.
Several westbound lanes were closed for several hours during rush hour as authorities investigated the crash.
Suicide?
Not sure, it's nowhere near a full moon.
We had a naked guy in San Francisco hit on a freeway early this morning as well.
Why did I know that this happened on the 91 just from reading the title?
I concur that this looks like a suicide to me.
Landed on top of a big rig's cargo box?
Neat.
Hey, it was a lot of fun. Don't knock it 'till you've tried it.
I once worked in a bike shop and was having a smoke on the loading dock and heard a crash like a refrigerator falling off the back of a pick up truck.
When I went back into the shop everyone was talking about a motorcycle crash out in front of the shop.
A motorcycleist hit the back of a car doing Mach?? and vaulted over the car. His bike followed and landed on him. He never even applied his brakes.
I also met a female bike courier who came in for an insurance estimate on her bike.
She was bookin' max downhill when someone opened their driver side door and she zapped it.
She took the door off it's hinges and her bike sailed through the air and destroyed a custom painting on the side of a high end rig.
Meanwhile she skidded under the rig saw the rear wheels coming up behind her, dragged her leg and skidded out from under the truck.
Her bike didn't have single part on it that wasn't broken and she came out of it with a bruise on her hip.
L.A. Proved too much for the man
(too much for the man)
(he couldn't make it)
So he's leaving the life he's come to know
(said he's going back)
he said he's going back to find
(going back to find)
What's left in this world
the world he left behind
not so very long ago
Oh yeah, h e's leaving
(leaving)
On the 2 wheeled trip to nowhere
(nowhere)
..........................
"Then Came Bronson"...?
Midnight train to Ga.
Gladys Knight or the Indigo girls. :-)
HHmmm. It stated in the title that it was a motorcyclist. The title did not state that it was on the 91 it only stated that it was a freeway crash.
There are numerous freeways in Orange County. The 5, 405, 605, 91, 22, 57, and the 33 just to name a few.
drove by it about 1 1/2 hours later...there he was, wrapped in a yellow blanket...could see the top o' his melon and hands....2 red streaks down the side of the rig...he musta flew 100 feet
Hey ~ be careful out there!!!
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