Just hours after a bike rider was killed in Aliso Viejo, another man lost his life in a SoCal bike crash, this time in Long Beach.
And on a street that’s already seen far too many people killed.
According to the Long Beach Post, a bike rider, who has not been publicly identified, was struck by a driver after reportedly swerving unsafely across traffic lanes at Los Coyotes Diagonal and Palo Verde Avenue just before 11 am today.
A Good Samaritan performed CPR on the 62-year old Long Beach man until paramedics arrived to take him to a local hospital, where he died.
The paper reports he was riding north in the bike lane on Los Coyotes when he cut across at least four lanes of the roadway at Palo Verde Ave, and was struck by the 88-year old driver of a southbound car.
For a change, the driver remained at the scene. Whether a younger motorist would have been able to stop in time is something we may never know.
Photos from the scene show a badly mangled road bike.
The Long Beach Post’s Brian Addison reports the city has seen six people killed in traffic collisions already this year, including 64-year old Long Beach bike rider Rhodora Roldan Bachillar.
And Los Coyotes has seen more than its share of fatal bike crashes, either on or just off the deadly corridor.
This is at least the sixth bicycling fatality in Southern California this year, and the second I’m aware of in Los Angeles County; both of those deaths have been in Long Beach.
Update: The victim has been identified as 62-year old Long Beach resident Ian Anthony Martin.
My deepest sympathy and prayers for Ian Anthony Martin and all his loved ones.
Thanks to Michael Muhammad for the heads-up.
We offer up our prayers for the family and friends of the victim. Before I retired, I often rode on Los Coyotes Diagonal. The angle saved time and distance, and it was wide and fast but with many odd-shaped intersections.