Rider killed in Sunset Beach motorcycle crash was 28-year-old Cerritos man
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A motorcycle rider killed after colliding with a car in coastal Orange County over the weekend was a 28-year-old Cerritos man, police said Monday.
The crash, at the intersection of Pacific Coast Highway and 24th Street in Sunset Beach, took place shortly before 4 p.m. on Sunday, according to a release issued by the Huntington Beach Police Department.
A witness told the California Highway Patrol a male wearing all black flew off a blue motorcycle and landed in a dirt area of the right-hand shoulder.
The Orange County coroner’s office was summoned to the scene, where the young man was pronounced dead, police reported. Coroner’s officials Wednesday identified the motorcyclist as Cerritos resident Steve Yaser Mhwaish, according to sheriff’s spokesman Sgt. Gerard McCann.
A preliminary investigation determined the Toyota had exited a parking lot to southbound PCH and collided with the northbound BMW motorcycle.
The driver of the sedan, described as a 19-year-old woman from Long Beach, remained at the scene and cooperated with police, HBPD reported. Impairment on the driver’s part does not appear to have been a factor, but authorities have yet to determine whether the motorcyclist may have been impaired at the time of the crash.
The investigation is being handled by HBPD’s Multidisciplinary Investigation Team. Anyone who may have witnessed the collision or events leading up to it is encouraged to contact Traffic Investigator Cameron Houlston at (714) 536-5670.
City News Service contributed to this report.
Updates
11:35 a.m. April 1, 2026: This story was updated to include the decedent’s identity, provided by the Orange County Coroner’s Office through a sheriff’s spokesman.
