{"id":311122,"date":"2026-05-12T00:26:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T00:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/311122\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T00:26:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T00:26:09","slug":"oc-boy-who-died-in-electric-motorcycle-crash-identified-nbc-los-angeles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/311122\/","title":{"rendered":"OC boy who died in electric motorcycle crash identified \u2013 NBC Los Angeles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A teenager who died following an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbclosangeles.com\/news\/local\/garden-grove-electric-motorcycle-teen-death\/3888652\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.nbclosangeles.com\/news\/local\/garden-grove-electric-motorcycle-teen-death\/3888652\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">electric motorcycle crash<\/a> in Garden Grove was identified as 13-year-old Benson Nguyen of Santa Ana, the Garden Grove Police Department confirmed Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The incident happened before 10 p.m. last Thursday near Magnolia Street and Larson Avenue when the boy&#8217;s electric motorcycle crashed into the center median, according to police. <\/p>\n<p>Shortly before the collision, the 13-year-old was traveling at about 35 miles per hour. It was not immediately clear what caused the teen to crash into the divider. <\/p>\n<p>Benson was taken to a hospital where he later died from his injuries, police said. <\/p>\n<p>A witness, who pulled over to help, described the violent impact of the crash as the teen was &#8220;was gasping for air.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe knew the kid. He was always on his bike,\u201d Eduardo Avalos said, adding that he removed Benson&#8217;s helmet strap to help him breathe better. \u201cHe was always here with other bike riders, riding the bike and it was just going too fast.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Police sought additional witnesses or people who have a video of the incident. Anyone with information was urged to contact Investigator Lang at 714-741-5823 or mlang@ggcity.org. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A teenager who died following an electric motorcycle crash in Garden Grove was identified as 13-year-old Benson Nguyen&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":311123,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164,11078],"class_list":["post-311122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news","tag-garden-grove"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311122","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=311122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311122\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/311123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}