Motorcyclist Dead After Crash on Broadway in Eureka
According to Officer Paul Craft at approximately 2:35 p.m., a motorcyclist riding a Yamaha traveling northbound on Broadway in Eureka collided with a vehicle and was killed.
Craft said that the vehicle had pulled out onto Broadway to make a southbound turn from Highland Ave. The motorcyclist “tried to avoid a collision, laid the motorcycle down but slid into the vehicle,” Croft explained.
The road was briefly closed but through traffic resumed at 3:50 p.m.
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Stupid drivers not paying attention when they are pulling out into traffic from a side road. I’ve had to hit my brakes numerous times to avoid hitting them broadside. I hope this stupid driver pays dearly for his/her idiot driving habits. Also, hope they have good insurance for a major lawsuit.
This is a bad spot to try to merge whether south or northbound. So sorry to family of victim.
You don’t know they’re stupid, Eldon, they may have been sending an important text or taking a selfie and updating their FB page, geez. Thanks tho for your input. Be sure to glance at the other articles and feel free to write down your opinion.
It’s a terrible place to try to hang a left. Sometimes on intersections like this you might feel like ya gotta gun it and go…not excusing a bad pull-out but maybe there’s a good spot for yet another traffic light?
Very sad to hear this two days in to motorcycle awareness month. My condolences
Omg, two families are hurting right now. One little mistake can cost a person his life. Sad…
Don’t lay it down. Stand on your pegs so you might be catapulted over the car. Better to land and maybe roll. Taught by CHP in the 70s. Saved me in a head on.
it happen to me once and i barely stood up on the pegs out of panic i think and sure as hell i shot forward hit the car with my chest and then over the top im not sure how i landed but was concious within a few minutes, scrapes bumps and bruises and a totaled bike, but was home with my kids that night
Yeah… standing on your pegs, hoping to launch over a vehicle in your lane. Brilliant! Good way to sustain a T-level fracture and be paralyzed for life. Better to ride defensively, always within your capability and skill level to avoid such incidents.
It also helps if cagers look where they’re going.
Excuse me but MY brother is Charles Roybal III is NOT dead!!!!!!! I just got off the phone with him!! Someone must have his ID who do we get a hold of to fix this?
Geneva, can you contact me? [email protected]
Was it? I saw that the police report said NOK were contacted.
CHP. Law enforcement. Quickly!
There is not enough information here for anyone to assign blame, let alone start lawsuits.
I was thinking that. It is probably the car’s fault as it frequently is but a speeding, lane splitting motorbike can also be at fault. That road has become so difficult to drive that I try to use an intersection regulated by a signal in every case but some businesses only front the road itself. There are times when I will park and walk rather than try to get into traffic. The city and the State need to spend it’s resources there rather that dribbling out money for social programs.