5 Dead, 6 Hurt as Motorcycles Crash in Calif.

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Looks like the one who started this is still on the loose. They may not find who it was.



OCOTILLO, Calif. ? Authorities were looking for the driver of a car that tried to pass a group of motorcycles and caused another car to lose control on a desert highway, triggering a crash that killed five people and injured six others, officials said.
Seven motorcyclists ? members of a club celebrating its 10th anniversary ? were ensnared in the collision on two-lane Route 98 near Ocotillo, a few miles north of the Mexico border and 80 miles east of San Diego.
Two men and two women motorcyclists died at the scene Saturday before paramedics arrived, Imperial County Fire Department Capt. Peter Stanton told The Associated Press. One passenger from a car was also killed.
The crash occurred shortly before 1 p.m. as an eastbound gold Honda Accord went into the oncoming lane to pass about a dozen motorcycles, some of them carrying two people, authorities said. That maneuver forced a westbound Dodge Avenger sedan to swerve on to the sandy shoulder to avoid a head-on collision.
Stanton said at that point the westbound car veered back across the road and into the cyclists.
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"He lost control and then his vehicle just drove into the group of motorcycles," he said.
The Honda making the pass that triggered the accident was not damaged and did not stop.
"They're looking for that car and the driver," Stanton said. "He didn't stop, he kept going, he fled the scene."
Officials said the driver was a man in a baseball cap.
Two of the dead were a married couple riding the same bike and all four were part of the Saddle Tramps, a San Diego County club celebrating its anniversary with a ride across the desert, California Highway Patrol Officer Deann Goudie told several media outlets.
She said the group had met for breakfast in their hometown of Lakeside before leaving on the trip.
Five people from motorcycles and one from the car were injured, Stanton said. Several motorcycles toward the back of the pack were able to avoid the accident.
Two helicopters landed on the highway to airlift two male patients to San Diego-area hospitals, and four ambulances took patients to local hospitals in Brawley and El Centro, authorities said.
 
Well, that really Sucks Big Time. I hope they can catch the Ass Hole that caused this. And, Bury Him.......
 
Any chance the driver is here illegally , has no insurance , has no valid drivers license , doedn't speak english , was high...stop me if you've heard this before...:damn angry:
 
A female Avenger passenger died when a motorcyclist went right through the front passenger door of the car, Goudie said. The Avenger driver was among those airlifted to a hospital.

Goudie said the Civic driver may face charges depending on the outcome of the crash investigation.


May? MAY face charges? Some asswipe didn't bother to look before passing and as a result caused five deaths and six injuries. Then they flee the scene, and they "may" get charged? Five counts vehicluar manslaughter, do not pass go, do not collect $200.

In a case like that he should have to personally meet with the families of all the people he just fucked and explain to them their loved one is dead or hurt because of what a shithead he is.

Knowing how this country works it was probably some illegal mexican who once found, will sue the state back for not providing him with adequate driver training and drug rehab for his smack habit. And he'll win.
 
Here's an update. I can possibly see why part of the accident happened. Prob just get a slap on the wrist and deportation. If he wasn't in the states, would these people still be breathing? Always makes me wonder in a case like this. I forgot how many Americans n a report I seen that have been killed by intoxicated aliens on our roads. It was in the tens of thousands. The report equivelated 13 DUI deaths to 12 murders, per each 25, committed by aliens on Americans. This, I seen about two yrs ago.



SAN DIEGO ? A man was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence after he slammed his car head-on into a group of motorcycle riders celebrating their club's 10th anniversary, killing four motorcyclists and his companion, authorities said Sunday.
The driver, Carlos Ramirez Bobadilla, was among six people injured in Saturday's crash on a remote desert highway, said California Highway Patrol Officer DeeAnn Goudie. Ramirez, 36, was recovering from hand fractures at a San Diego hospital.
The arrest was made when officers smelled alcohol on his breath about five hours after the crash, Goudie said. Results of a blood test were pending.
It is unclear if the driver's alleged alcohol consumption contributed to the collision, Goudie said, but he was arrested on a misdemeanor and is not being held responsible for the deaths based on evidence collected so far. Authorities were looking for the driver of a gold Honda Civic who forced Ramirez off the road when trying to pass the motorcyclists on the undivided two-lane highway east of San Diego.
Ramirez, of Mexicali, Mexico, swerved his white Dodge Avenger to the right shoulder to avoid the Honda and then overcompensated by swinging left into oncoming traffic, Goudie said. Ramirez's speedometer was found stuck at 60 mph, 5 mph below the speed limit.
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"It would have been nice if he had just gone off to the right," she said. "He would have been stuck in the soft sand."
None of the motorcyclists got the license plate of the Honda driver ? described as a man wearing a baseball cap. No one pursued him, choosing to stay behind to attend to their friends.
"I was the first person on scene that had a uniform on," Goudie said. "I was being dragged in every direction by frantic people saying, 'Help this person, help that person.'"
The CHP withheld names of the five who died, pending notification of next of kin. They included a husband and wife who were on a motorcycle that was first to be struck.
A man who was driving a motorcycle behind the couple was struck next and died, Goudie said.
Ramirez turned and hit a third motorcycle, killing a woman who was riding on the back and injuring her husband, Wilson Trayer, 39, of Lakeside, Goudie said.
Trayer's motorcycle sliced 18 inches into the front passenger door of the Dodge that Ramirez was driving, killing Ramirez's companion, a 31-year-old Mexicali woman who owned the car, Goudie said.
Carl Smith, president of the Lakeside-based Saddletramps Motorcycle Club, said three riders were seriously injured but expected to survive. Two others had less serious injuries.
William Barnes, 57, of San Diego suffered a punctured lung and broken hip and ankle and his wife, Melanie, 46, broke her pelvis and had a brain hemorrhage, Smith said. Trayer broke his pelvis, ribs, back and jaw, according to his daughter, Sierra.
"It's going to be a long recovery for the three of them," Smith said.
One of the injured ? John Philip Lombardo, 55, of Lakeside, whose leg was hit by an ejected motorcyclist ? was released from the hospital, Goudie said.
Another rider had her spleen removed, Smith said. Goudie identified her as Kelly Halley, 42, of Santee.
Smith was leading the motorcycles and watched in his rearview mirror as Ramirez turned his sedan into oncoming traffic and struck the middle of the pack. There were 21 riders on about a dozen motorcycles.
"The car was out of control when I went by him. He narrowly missed me and my vice president," said Smith.
Smith doesn't blame Ramirez, despite the allegation that he was driving under the influence. He considers Ramirez a victim because his companion died.
"It looked like he overreacted, but the guy in the Honda Civic was at fault," said Smith, who estimated the Civic was going 95 mph when it passed the motorcycles.
The group met Saturday morning at Smith's Alpine home and had breakfast at the Golden Acorn Casino off Interstate 8 in Boulevard. They planned to spend the night at the Quechan Casino Resort in Winterhaven, near the Arizona state line.
"They were just going on a nice, leisurely ride in the desert because the weather's gorgeous now," Goudie said.
The accident occurred about 1 p.m. Saturday on state Route 98 near the hamlet of Ocotillo, about 80 miles east of San Diego. The curvy road, which hugs the Mexican border, links Mexicali to Interstate 8 and is used by motorists from Southern Californians and Mexico's Baja California state.
Smith said club members are close friends ? many in daily contact ? who go on long monthly rides and do an annual charity drive for the Boys and Girls Clubs of East (San Diego) County. They plan a blood drive to help the injured riders.
 
I put this one in the In Memory of section. This one hit home for me cuase I know a guy form that group. Went to his shop today to and sure enough he was alive and kicking, sad though. Said he was not out on the ride cause he had to work at the shop but was out there picking up the bikes of his buddys.
There will be a service for one of the weman who was killed on Sun the 21st at the Renegade in East County. I will go to show my support for my friends fallen loved ones.
This accident orfended two groups of kids. Sad, very sad.
 

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