A motorcyclist dressed in black, with a female passenger without a helmet, led Los Angeles police and the California Highway Patrol on a 100-mile-plus chase Sunday through all of Orange County before finally stopping in northern San Diego County.
The chase began when Los Angeles police tried to pull over the motorcyclist for an unknown reason near Bob Hope Airport, in the Sun Valley section of the San Fernando Valley. The LAPD officers chased the bike onto the northbound Golden State (5) Freeway, west onto the Ronald Reagan (118) Freeway, and then south on the San Diego (405) Freeway from the northern edge of the Valley.
It passed the City News Service offices in West L.A. at 1:25 p.m., where
an editor spotted the biker and his female passenger both dressed in all-
black. They were in the carpool lane, travelling about 10 miles per hour faster
than the other free-flow traffic.
The chase was taken over by CHP motorcycles and a CHP chopper at West
Los Angeles. The chase continued past LAX, Long Beach, and all of Orange
County, and transitioned onto southbound Interstate 5 at the El Toro Y.
At 2:25 p.m., the chase was poised to enter San Diego County at San
Onofre, according to KNX radio in Los Angeles.
The bike stopped about 2:45 p.m. on southbound Interstate 5 near Las
Pulgas Road on Camp Pendleton, according to the CHP.
KNX radio reported that witnesses told them they saw two people arrested.
-- City News Service
I was riding Ortega today and a biker went off a cliff, I'm wondering now if he's alive, it was a steep one and couldn't see where he landed, fire rescue was on way when I left.
Did it ever occur to law enforcement that it was not worth putting the passenger at risk of death? I can see where you might disregard the driver, but the passenger???? When does common sense rule?
I ride a MC and I always wear a helmet even in states where it is not required. Some people are crazy.
You don't have to be crazy to not wear a helmet. I did not wear one for 40 yrs. until it was mandated. Even now many states do not require a helmet and many states have gone back to not requiring it. You sound like a newbe. The people that should be wearing a helmets are not. That is the pedestrians that cross streets. More dead pedestrians would of survived a collision if they only wore a helmet... A lot more than bikers. just sayin
The reason being he was possibly going to "endanger others". Just like the Marine murdered.
I am for freedom of choice on the helmet but when I went to the Laughlin run and crossed into Az. I checked my helmet at the border for $1. 20 minutes into the Az. desert I was sorry. The wind and heat baked my poor skin. I would not use the helmet around town though but someone in Washington that does not ride and never will, tells me I have to wear it.
Reflecting on your imagined scenarios.... Where did 50/50 odds come from? You made it up, right?? Obamacare is now official so does that mean we eliminate the helmets? We all have insurance. I bet you can make up another excuse besides insurance now for wearing helmets? Right? More pedestrians are killed in cross walks than motorcycle riders without helmets. Should we make all pedestrians wear helmets? I bet 65% have no insurance. More people drown then motorcyclists die wearing a helmet! Should those people be required to have insurance or be forced to have scuba gear. I bet 68% have no insurance. THANK ALLAH FOR OBAMA.....& the elimination of choice.