LOCAL : Teen-Ager Killed on Stolen Cycle
The driver of a stolen motorcycle was killed when he hit a curb while going an estimated 90 m.p.h. and crashed in Mission Hills, Los Angeles police reported this morning. A passenger on the motorcycle was seriously injured.
Sgt. Bruce Heschong said the identity of the driver was not known, but he was believed to be 17 or 18 years old.
A 17-year-old youth from Mission Hills, whose identity was not released, was a passenger on the motorcycle when it crashed at 11:25 p.m. Sunday at a dead-end on Columbus Avenue south of Los Alimos Street. He was in serious condition at Holy Cross Medical Center in Mission Hills.
Heschong said the motorcycle had been reported stolen earlier by its owner in Sylmar. The sergeant said the teen-agers were riding it up and down Columbus Avenue on the block where it dead-ends against the Simi Valley Freeway. The pair stopped occasionally to drink beer with acquaintances who were watching, police said.
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