A ROBBERY SUSPECT IN SANTEE, CALIFORNIA (San Diego area), met his maker in a fiery crash after he piled his motorcycle into the side of a truck and then into a Highway Patrol car.
KSWB-TV
The 39-yr.-old man had just held up a convenience store for some cigarettes when a patrol car spotted him and gave chase. After trying to elude the police cars that had converged to capture him, he made an unwise choice and sped his motorcycle onto a road that was closed ahead for construction. At the same moment, a CHP officer was talking to the construction crew to warn them of the high-speed chase in the area. The Union-Tribune continues:
That officer was facing south in his patrol car talking to a Caltrans employee who was sitting in his truck facing north on the highway between concrete barriers when they heard the motorcycle approaching at high speed. Both men jumped out of their vehicles and took refuge behind the barriers.
The rider had nowhere to go and crashed head-on into the truck. The bike became wedged underneath it and pushed the truck into the patrol car, before bursting into flames, [a CHP spokesman] said.
The motorcyclist was thrown about 200 feet. Emergency personnel tried to resuscitate him, but he died at the scene about 2:30 a.m. Neither the CHP officer nor the Caltrans worker was injured. A revolver was found in the debris.
KFMB-TV Ch. 8 filed this video report from the crash scene:
All three vehicles were destroyed by the crash and fire. Read the full STORY HERE.
Union-Tribune
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