Motorcyclist Is Killed in Crash
A Temecula man was arrested on suspicion of drunk driving and manslaughter early Saturday morning after his car veered into oncoming traffic, striking and killing a motorcyclist, police said.
Todd A. Drange, 30, was being held in Orange County Jail on Saturday in connection with the 2 a.m. collision in the 800 block of North Tustin Street, said Sgt. Bob Green.
The identity of the victim, who was pronounced dead at the scene, was being withheld until notification of next of kin, Green said. The family of the man, a resident of Orange, apparently lives in New York.
Green said Drange was driving north on Tustin when he suddenly crossed the center divider. The motorcyclist, traveling south on a 1986 Yamaha motorcycle, was hit head-on and killed instantly, Green said.
“He was thrown quite some distance,” Green said.
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