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SAN PEDRO — A 51-year-old bicyclist struck and killed by a car in San Pedro whose driver fled was identified Monday by the coroner’s office.

Oscar Montoya was struck about 12:40 a.m. Saturday while riding northbound on Pacific Avenue, just south of Channel Street, by a small, light-colored car that was also going northbound on Pacific Avenue, the Los Angeles Police Department reported.

“The collision caused the victim to be ejected from his bicycle and collide with the roadway,” police said. “The vehicle that collided with (the) cyclist fled the scene, did not stop to render aid to the victim, and/or ID themselves.”

Paramedics pronounced Montoya dead at the scene.

The LAPD’s South Traffic Division urged anyone with information about the crash to call them at 323-421-2500 or, after 6 p.m. at 323-421-2560 or 877- 527-3257.

Tipsters can also go to lapdonline.org and click on “Anonymous Web Tips” under the “Get Involved-Crime Stoppers” menu to submit an online tip.

SAN PEDRO — A 51-year-old bicyclist struck and killed by a car in San Pedro whose driver fled was identified Monday by the coroner’s office.

Oscar Montoya was struck about 12:40 a.m. Saturday while riding northbound on Pacific Avenue, just south of Channel Street, by a small, light-colored car that was also going northbound on Pacific Avenue, the Los Angeles Police Department reported.

“The collision caused the victim to be ejected from his bicycle and collide with the roadway,” police said. “The vehicle that collided with (the) cyclist fled the scene, did not stop to render aid to the victim, and/or ID themselves.”

Paramedics pronounced Montoya dead at the scene.

The LAPD’s South Traffic Division urged anyone with information about the crash to call them at 323-421-2500 or, after 6 p.m. at 323-421-2560 or 877- 527-3257.

Tipsters can also go to lapdonline.org and click on “Anonymous Web Tips” under the “Get Involved-Crime Stoppers” menu to submit an online tip.

A Pomona man was sentenced this week to 15 years to life in prison for killing a passenger when he crashed in Pomona while driving drunk and high in 2020.

Javan Clifford Draper, 47, pleaded no contest on Wednesday, Jan. 25, to second-degree murder as well as driving with a blood-alcohol content of .08 percent or more causing injury, said Greg Risling, a spokesman for the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office. Draper was sentenced the same day at Pomona Superior Court.

The case stems from a Feb. 18, 2020, crash, before 2 a.m., in the 2000 block of North Garey Avenue.

Officers found a vehicle in the center divider. Draper and his front passenger were trapped in the vehicle while one passenger was ejected, police said. The front passenger, Anthony Lamar Tucker, 23, of Pomona, died.

Investigators determined that Draper was under the influence of alcohol and drugs and drove south on Garey Avenue at more than 80 mph.

A Pomona man was sentenced this week to 15 years to life in prison for killing a passenger when he crashed in Pomona while driving drunk and high in 2020.

Javan Clifford Draper, 47, pleaded no contest on Wednesday, Jan. 25, to second-degree murder as well as driving with a blood-alcohol content of .08 percent or more causing injury, said Greg Risling, a spokesman for the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office. Draper was sentenced the same day at Pomona Superior Court.

The case stems from a Feb. 18, 2020, crash, before 2 a.m., in the 2000 block of North Garey Avenue.

Officers found a vehicle in the center divider. Draper and his front passenger were trapped in the vehicle while one passenger was ejected, police said. The front passenger, Anthony Lamar Tucker, 23, of Pomona, died.

Investigators determined that Draper was under the influence of alcohol and drugs and drove south on Garey Avenue at more than 80 mph.

LOS ANGELES — Comedian Jay Leno is on the mend again, this time recovering from a motorcycle accident in Las Vegas that left him with broken ribs and cracked knee caps.

Leno, the former host of “The Tonight Show,” told the Las Vegas Review-Journal he was riding a 1940 Indian motorcycle and was knocked off his bike while riding through a parking lot on Jan. 17. He ended breaking his collarbone, broke two ribs and cracked both kneecaps.

“But I’m OK!” Leno told the Review-Journal in a story published Thursday. “I’m OK, I’m working. I’m working this weekend.”

He told the Review-Journal he was riding the motorcycle and noticed what he said smelled like a fuel leak.

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“So I turned down a side street and cut through a parking lot, and unbeknownst to me, some guy had a wire strung across the parking lot but with no flag hanging from it,” Leno told the Review-Journal. “So, you know, I didn’t see it until it was too late. It just clotheslined me and, boom, knocked me off the bike.”

Leno was burned while working on a car in his garage in Los Angeles in November. He was treated for his injuries from the burns at the Grossman Burn Center in Los Angeles.

Leno is set to headline at the Encore Theater in Las Vegas on March 31, his first appearance since the November incident.

LOS ANGELES — Comedian Jay Leno is on the mend again, this time recovering from a motorcycle accident in Las Vegas that left him with broken ribs and cracked knee caps.

Leno, the former host of “The Tonight Show,” told the Las Vegas Review-Journal he was riding a 1940 Indian motorcycle and was knocked off his bike while riding through a parking lot on Jan. 17. He ended breaking his collarbone, broke two ribs and cracked both kneecaps.

“But I’m OK!” Leno told the Review-Journal in a story published Thursday. “I’m OK, I’m working. I’m working this weekend.”

He told the Review-Journal he was riding the motorcycle and noticed what he said smelled like a fuel leak.

RELATED STORY: Jay Leno released from Grossman Burn Center 9 days after garage fire

“So I turned down a side street and cut through a parking lot, and unbeknownst to me, some guy had a wire strung across the parking lot but with no flag hanging from it,” Leno told the Review-Journal. “So, you know, I didn’t see it until it was too late. It just clotheslined me and, boom, knocked me off the bike.”

Leno was burned while working on a car in his garage in Los Angeles in November. He was treated for his injuries from the burns at the Grossman Burn Center in Los Angeles.

Leno is set to headline at the Encore Theater in Las Vegas on March 31, his first appearance since the November incident.

A 47-year-old woman who was arrested on suspicion of hit-and-run causing death six days after a Jan. 12 collision with a pedestrian in Nuevo is out of custody after posting bail.

Rita Michelle Quintana of Nuevo was booked into Robert Presley Detention Center in Riverside on Jan. 18 and posted $75,000 bail the next day, county jail records show. The California Highway Patrol announced the arrest on Tuesday, Jan. 24. Quintana has not been charged.

The collision happened at about 7 p.m. on Jan. 12, the CHP said. Quintana was driving a blue Chevrolet Malibu west on Montgomery Avenue north of Nuevo Road when she struck a pedestrian, the CHP said, and fled without stopping.

The Riverside County Coroner’s Office identified the victim as Maria Estrada, 38, of Perris.

“Investigating officers were able to identify critical pieces of evidence on scene, which provided leads on a possible suspect vehicle color, make and model,” Officer Javier Navarro, a CHP spokesman, wrote in a news release.

The CHP asked witnesses to call 951-637-8000.