BUENA PARK : Scooter Rider Hurt in Traffic Crash
A 21-year-old man was critically injured Thursday when he crashed his motor scooter into the rear of a truck on the Beach Boulevard overpass of the Santa Ana Freeway, Buena Park police said.
The man’s name was being withheld until his parents could be told, and police said they did not know where he lived.
Police spokeswoman Betty Haney said the scooter rider, who was not wearing a helmet, was headed west when he struck the tractor-trailer shortly after 6 a.m. The man sustained massive head injuries in the crash, Haney said, and was unconscious when he was taken to UCI Medical Center in Orange.
The man apparently had been going too fast when he hit the truck, which was traveling between 15 and 20 m.p.h., police said. The driver of the truck was not cited.
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