ORANGE, CA \u2014 A motorcyclist died after apparently losing control of their bike on an Orange County freeway transition road and was flung from an overpass Saturday. <\/p>\n
The crash happened at 2:36 p.m. Saturday on the transition from the eastbound Garden Grove (22) Freeway to the northbound Golden State (5) Freeway, according to the California Highway Patrol. <\/p>\n
A witness told the CHP that a man wearing all black flew off a blue motorcycle and landed in a dirt area of the right-hand shoulder. <\/p>\n
Witnesses also said the rider went over the overpass and was not moving on the ground below. <\/p>\n
The rider was pronounced dead at the scene. Their name was not released.<\/p>\n
The transition from the eastbound Garden Grove Freeway to the northbound Santa Ana Freeway was shut down for nearly three hours for the investigation and clean up.<\/p>\n
Anyone who witnessed the crash was urged to contact the CHP’s Orange County Communications Center at 949-784-6700.<\/p>\n
City News Service contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ORANGE, CA \u2014 A motorcyclist died after apparently losing control of their bike on an Orange County freeway…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":243970,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164],"class_list":["post-243969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243969","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=243969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243969\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}