Last Updated on August 28, 2018 by CCAR Staff
A Riverside motorcyclist died in a head-on collision with a speeding car that had crossed the double-yellow lines on curving Live Oak Canyon Road in Redlands, police said, with the Fontana driver arrested after he ran from the scene and was found hiding in a ravine.
Herbert Long, 74, of Riverside, died at the 6:45 a.m. Sunday crash site.
Long was traveling east in the 29000 block of Live Oak Canyon Road, while Miguel Ochoa Torres,18, was heading west in a Ford Mustang at “a high rate of speed,” Redlands police spokesman Carl Baker said in a news release.
“The driver drifted off the roadway, over-corrected and crossed the double-yellow lines into the oncoming traffic lane and struck the motorcycle,” Baker said.
Ochoa Torres fled on foot but was found in a nearby ravine with help from a San Bernardino County sheriff’s helicopter crew.
Baker said Ochoa was being treated at a hospital and expected to be arrested on suspicion of felony hit-and-run, felony driving-under-the-influence, and gross vehicular manslaughter.
A 26-year-old passenger in the Mustang was treated at a hospital and released.
