{"id":338052,"date":"2026-05-29T20:41:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T20:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/338052\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T20:41:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T20:41:08","slug":"oakland-fatal-bay-bridge-motorcycle-crash-victim-identified-as-hercules-resident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/338052\/","title":{"rendered":"Oakland: Fatal Bay Bridge Motorcycle Crash Victim Identified As Hercules Resident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man who died in an early morning motorcycle crash on the Bay Bridge last week has been identified as a 30-year-old Hercules resident by the Alameda County Coroner&#8217;s Bureau.<\/p>\n<p>Anthony Rahgozar crashed his motorcycle on May 21 at about 5:30 a.m. just west of the metering lights on the westbound lanes of the bridge, according to the California Highway Patrol.<\/p>\n<p>Within two minutes of the 911 call, a CHP officer was at the scene and performing CPR on Rahgozar, who was found lying unconscious in the roadway, said CHP spokesperson Officer Mark Andrews.<\/p>\n<p>Oakland Fire Department personnel declared Rahgozar dead at the scene at about 5:45 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s unclear what caused the crash but after being thrown from the bike, Rahgozar was run over by a box truck, Andrews said.<\/p>\n<p>The truck driver remained at the scene and cooperated with investigators.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information about the crash can call CHP Officer Noah Cornell at (415) 276-5300.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 Bay City News, Inc.  All rights reserved.  Republication, rebroadcast or redistribution without the express written consent of Bay City News, Inc. is prohibited. Bay City News is a 24\/7 news service covering the greater Bay Area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man who died in an early morning motorcycle crash on the Bay Bridge last week has been&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":293978,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[143,145,144],"class_list":["post-338052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338052","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=338052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338052\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/293978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}