LOCAL : Teen Dies in Motorcycle Crash
A 17-year-old Rossmoor boy died early today shortly after the motorcycle he was riding as a passenger went out of control and crashed, the California Highway Patrol reported.
James Englehaupt died at 1:10 a.m. at Long Beach Memorial Hospital, about two hours after the accident along St. Albans Drive in Rossmoor, an unincorporated Orange County community west of Los Alamitos, CHP spokesman Lyle Whitten said.
Englehaupt was a passenger on the off-road motorcycle driven by Michael David Winter, 18, also of Rossmoor. Whitten said the pair were headed east on St. Albans Drive near Silver Fox Road at an unknown speed when Winter apparently lost control of the motorcycle.
They crashed into a curb and struck a post, throwing both of them from the motorcycle. Englehaupt suffered massive head and internal injuries while Winter, who was taken to the same hospital, had a broken arm and other minor injuries. Whitten said neither youth was wearing a helmet.
Whitten said officers will ask the Orange County district attorney’s office to file drunk driving and possibly manslaughter charges against Winter. Whitten said the motorcyclist also lacked the proper driver’s license.
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