Motorcycle after crash. Mario Sevilla I.E. Media Source/Valley News photo
LAKE ELSINORE (CNS) - A 34-year-old motorcyclist killed in a collision
with a stopped van on the Ortega (74) Highway near Lake Elsinore was
traveling over 80 mph at the time of impact, the California Highway Patrol said
today.Javier Hernandez Segura of Murrieta was fatally injured about 11 a.m.
Sunday on the eastbound side of the highway, just east of South Main Divide
Road, according to the CHP.Officer Mike Lassig said that Segura was riding a 2006 Suzuki GSXR
motorcycle and was "observed traveling at speeds in excess of 80 mph'' moments
before the crash.The CHP spokesman said that a 52-year-old San Clemente man at the
wheel of a 2008 Econoline van came to a complete stop on the eastbound Ortega
to make a "legal left turn into a private parking area'' just prior to Se
