Oceanside Motorcycle Accident Caused by Hit-and-Run SUV Driver
An Oceanside motorcycle crash on Highway 76 near the Interstate 5 onramp on June 28 was reportedly caused by a hit-and-run SUV driver who had fled the scene, along with his two passengers.
The accident occurred around 7 p.m. on Sunday when the driver of a GMC Yukon ran a red light on westbound 76 as they drove toward the onramp, which then caused the motorcycle coming towards them to broadside the SUV. The passenger on the motorcycle was a 20-year-old Escondido woman who was ejected and crashed through one of the Yukon's windows and ultimately landing inside of the SUV. The driver of the motorcycle, known only as a man from Escondido, crashed into the SUV and landed on the road. Both riders from the motorcycle had to be flown to a San Diego trauma center with non-life threatening injuries. You can read more about this Oceanside hit-and-run motorcycle accident in this North County Times story.
Police found a trail of blood several blocks from the scene near Center Avenue and Weitzel Street, and the only description they had was that of a Latino man with a bald head, wearing a blood-soaked white tank top.
The officers had traced the owner of the SUV to a home on Glenhaven Drive in Oceanside, although just after the wreck the car was reported stolen in a suspicious series of events.
Anyone with information about the incident is asked to call Oceanside police at (760) 435-4900.
If you or anyone you know has ever been injured or killed in an Oceanside motorcycle crash, please contact Oceanside motorcycle accident attorney Ross Jurewitz and the Oceanside personal injury lawyers at the Jurewitz Law Group at (619) 233-5020. You may also contact these Oceanside injury attorneys online here.
