Mission Viejo : Vehicle in Fatal Hit-Run Crash Described by CHP
The California Highway Patrol on Tuesday said it has obtained a better description of the car that struck and fatally injured a motorcyclist Monday morning.
Additional witnesses to the collision described the car as a Ford Grand Torino station wagon, silver or gray, bearing an out-of-state license plate with a white background, CHP Officer Ken Daily said. The left rear hub cap is missing and the left rear bumper has a U.S.A. sticker, he said. Daily added that the front end of the station wagon might have been damaged.
The auto struck James Michael Randall, 32, who had stopped his motorcycle at the corner of La Paz Road and Spadra Lane at about 8:30 a.m. Randall, who was wearing a helmet, died of internal injuries an hour later at a nearby hospital.
The hit-and-run driver was a male, Daily said, but witnesses so far have not been able to describe him. Investigators plan to interview a pedestrian, a junior high school student and one of several youths Randall had stopped for at a crosswalk.
The CHP requests that anyone with information about the accident call Daily or Officer Pat Barnard, at 661-6215.
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