Crime & Safety

Update: Crash Into Guardrail Kills Motorcyclist in Oceanside

An ambulance driver witnessed the Sunday-morning crash, but the 25-year-old mad died at the scene.

Updated on Sunday 5:50 p.m.

A 25-year-old Oceanside man killed early Sunday morning when he crashed his motorcycle on northbound Interstate 5 at Highway 78 has been identified as Joshua Francisco Abrahams-Rodriguez.

Abrahams-Rodriguez was driving his motorcycle at a high rate of speed at 1:31 a.m. going into the transition road to Route 78 east when he lost control and hit the guardrail, the Medical Examiner said.

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An ambulance driver who witnessed the accident stopped to render aid to Abrahams-Rodriguez, who was lying on top of the guardrail.

He died at the scene.

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An examination has not yet been scheduled, according to the medical examiner’s office.

-City News Service

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