A motorcycle rider killed after colliding with a car in coastal Orange County over the weekend was a 28-year-old Cerritos man, police said Monday.<\/p>\n
The crash at the intersection of Pacific Coast Highway and 24th Street in Sunset Beach was reported at 2:36 p.m. Saturday, according to the Newport Beach Police Department.<\/p>\n
A witness told the California Highway Patrol a male wearing all black flew off a blue motorcycle and landed in a dirt area of the right-hand shoulder.<\/p>\n
The Orange County coroner\u2019s office was summoned to the scene, where the young man was pronounced dead. <\/p>\n
His name was not released.<\/p>\n
The transition from the eastbound Garden Grove Freeway to the northbound Santa Ana Freeway was shut down for the investigation and clean up.<\/p>\n
It was reopened at 5:16 p.m.<\/p>\n
The rider collided with a white Toyota Camry, whose driver remained at the scene, police said.<\/p>\n
The Toyota exited a parking lot to southbound PCH and collided with the northbound BMW motorcycle, according to investigators\u2019 preliminary findings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A motorcycle rider killed after colliding with a car in coastal Orange County over the weekend was a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":169033,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[5092,859,109339,109341,3830,131,133,132,1024,9403,593,236,32347,109342,2489,109340,2695,9138],"class_list":["post-243926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-24th-street","tag-california-highway-patrol","tag-cerritos-man","tag-coastal-orange-county","tag-intersection","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news","tag-monday","tag-p-m-saturday","tag-pacific-coast-highway","tag-police","tag-rider","tag-right-hand-shoulder","tag-scene","tag-sunset-beach-motorcycle-crash","tag-weekend","tag-witness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243926\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/169033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}