• Mexicans can't drive either - San Clemente man dies after attempting to

    From Gene Pool Rises@21:1/5 to All on Thu Sep 10 04:19:04 2015
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    SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO – A 27-year-old local motorcyclist died
    Monday after colliding with the back of a car when failing to
    split freeway lanes, officials said.

    Daniel Amezcua, of San Clemente, was going more than 100 mph
    around 8:15 p.m. Sunday while driving a modified Suzki
    motorcycle northbound on the I-5, passing Stonehill Drive before
    he attempted to dodge slower traffic in the fast lane, according
    to the California Highway Patrol.

    CHP officials said that as Amezcua veered left to avoid the slow
    cars, splitting lanes between the fast and carpool lanes, he
    shifted right because of his fast speed, and he collided with
    the rear of a 2012 Kia Sorrento driven by Jenna Rae Schake, a 29-
    year-old Pennsylvania woman.

    The collision caused Amezcua to be thrown from the motorcycle
    onto the nearby roadway.

    “An off-duty EMT, a physician and a lifeguard encountered the
    aftermath of this collision and provided medical care,”
    according to a CHP release.

    Amezcua was taken to Mission Hospital where he later died from
    his injuries at 8:26 p.m. Monday, according to the coroner’s
    office.

    Officials said Schake, who was driving the Kia Sorrento within
    the speed limit, was not injured in the collision and was not
    arrested or cited.

    In May, California state Assembly approved a bill that prepared
    to legalize lane splitting. Motorcyclists would be allowed to
    drive between vehicles at 15 mph faster than surrounding
    traffic, up to a speed of 50 mph.

    It would be the first state to formally legalize the driving
    manuever, although it’s already a widely accepted driving
    manuever in California.

    Conversation on both side of the issue has caused the bill to be
    delayed until 2016.

    UC Berkeley transportation researchers analyzing the issue found
    that lane splitting does not necessarily pose a greater risk for
    injury, as long as motorcyclists do not exceed 15 mph more than
    the surrounding cars.

    However, 70 percent of lane-splitters said they exceed that
    speed, according to the California Enhanced Motorcycle Collision
    Data Project performed by the CHP.

    http://www.ocregister.com/articles/lanes-674235-amezcua-
    officials.html

     

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