Crime & Safety
Woman Thrown off Motorcycle, Killed Sunday from Rancho Santa Margarita
The 63-year-old was a passenger who was ejected when the driver failed to negotiate a turn correctly.
A woman passenger thrown off a motorcycle on Ortega Highway and killed was from Rancho Santa Margarita, the California Highway Patrol reported today.
The 63-year-old woman's identity has not been released. She was riding on the back of a 1997 Honda Magna driven by a 62-year-old Rancho Santa Margarita man, according to a CHP incident report.
A witness in a following car went to a U.S. Forest Service Fire Station around 4:40 p.m. Sunday to report that the woman flew off the bike about 13 miles east of the San Diego (5) Freeway, said Capt. Steve Concialdi of the Orange County Fire Authority.
The CHP report says the man driving the motorcycle failed to negotiate a turn while going 40 mph and hit the gravel shoulder. The woman was ejected as the motorcycle hit the guard rail.
The Ortega Highway fatal accident is now the second of three in two days involving motorcycles, with the third reported just this morning in Newport Beach.
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