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Article: Motorcycle fatalities increasing
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- The Sun, San Bernardino, Calif.
- Article date:
- October 21, 2007
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Six motorcyclists have died in crashes in the San Gabriel Valley
in as many months, highlighting an increase in motorcycle fatalities
at the county, state and national levels.
California Highway Patrol spokesman Steve Kohler said the CHP sees
no reason to believe the trend is going to turn around this year.
The most recent local crash occurred Oct. 1 and claimed the life
of 18-year-old Glendora resident Joseph Garabet.
He was riding his 1991 Yamaha on Mount Baldy Road in the Angeles
National Forest when he veered into the wrong side of the road for
unknown reasons and struck a Ford F-150 pickup truck head-on, CHP
officials said.
The day before, Thomas Brown, 43, of San Dimas was killed ...