Crime & Safety
Camp Pendleton Marine Killed in Motorcycle Crash Identified
The Marine Corps released the name of a Marine killed in a motorcycle accident in Oceanside on Wednesday.
A Marine was killed Wednesday when he was thrown from his 2006 Kawasaki motorcycle after failing to maneuver a slight turn on East Mission Road in Fallbrook at approximately 5:55 p.m., according to a press release from the San Diego County Medical Examiner's Office.
The Marine Corps identified the motorcyclist as Lance Cpl. David Gainey, 22, of Sacramento, in an email to Patch.
According to the press release, a "contributing condition" to the crash could have been "alcohol intoxication," though the California Highway Patrol is still waiting on a toxicology test to confirm that report, CHP officer Chris Parent told Patch.
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Gainey was a satellite communications operator-maintainer with the 9th Communications Battalion, I Marine Expeditionary Force.
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