Anaheim : Motorcycle Crashes Into Railroad Signal

A motorcyclist traveling 60 m.p.h. through a residential area early Sunday crashed into a Santa Fe Railroad signal standard and suffered major head injuries, police said.

Sean Joseph Guzman, 21, of Anaheim was in fair condition late Sunday at UCI Medical Center’s trauma center, officers and hospital officials said. No one else was involved in the crash.

Anaheim Police Officer Thomas Geary was patrolling a stretch of Cerritos Avenue near 9th Street about 5 a.m. Sunday when he heard two eastbound motorcycles approaching him. Geary said he saw the motorcyclist--later identified as Guzman--riding in the painted but flat center divider. He said Guzman made no attempt to veer his 1974 Honda away from the railroad crossing light.

Guzman was treated at the scene of the crash, then taken to the trauma center in Orange, said Lt. Ted Labahn. The second motorcyclist was not injured. Friends of Guzman told officers that at the time of the crash, he had been returning home from a party in Buena Park.