California Highway Patrol officers with the Newhall-area Office are asking for the public’s help regarding what happened in a fatal motorcycle crash Sunday morning.
Officer Carlos Burgos-Lopez, spokesman for the station, issued a news release Monday calling on anyone who might have seen the incident at approximately 10:12 a.m. on the southbound Escondido Canyon Road offramp of State Route 14.
The station began receiving calls at that time reporting a motorcyclist had crashed, along with a female passenger.
Paramedics with the Los Angeles County Fire Department were rendering life-saving aid to the rider and passenger as the CHP officers arrived on scene, according to Burgos-Lopez’s statement Monday.
Burgos-Lopez indicated in the statement that the female passenger was taken to Henry Mayo Newhall Hospital but the motorcyclist succumbed to his injuries at the scene.
“Currently, it is unknown if alcohol and or drugs are a factor in this crash. No other vehicles are believed to have been involved,” according to his email.
Burgos-Lopez said he did not have the coroner’s case number as of this story’s publication, and the decedent’s name has not been released.
“Should anyone have any information regarding this incident, they are encouraged to contact the CHP Newhall-area Office at 661-600-1600 attention: Officer S. Miller,” Burgos-Lopez wrote in his media statement.
An inquiry Monday to the county Medical Examiner’s Office received an automated email reply that indicated the facility was closed for the day “due to staffing shortages,” and, “We will get back to you as soon as we can.”
