A 45-year-old bicycle rider was struck by two vehicles and fatally injured just after dawn Wednesday morning in Vernon.
The crash was reported at about 6:30 a.m. Wednesday on Pacific Avenue near 45th Street, according to Vernon Police Department Lt. Gabriel Martinez.
The victim, later identified by the Los Angeles County Office of Medical Examiner as William Valle, was hit by a vehicle headed south on Pacific Avenue.
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The driver did not stop, Martinez said.
Valle was ejected into northbound lanes and was hit by a second vehicle that also left the scene, according to the lieutenant, who said descriptions of the vehicles were not yet available as detectives were only a couple of hours into their investigation.
Los Angeles County Fire Department personnel pronounced Valle dead at the scene, according to Martinez, who expressed his condolences to the rider’s loved ones.
The crash response and investigation temporarily closed a stretch of Pacific Boulevard between 45th Street and Vernon Avenue.
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