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59-year-old Jon Spiegel of Vacaville was unable to negotiate a curve on southbound Monticello Road at around 4:35 p.m. The motorcycle went down, leaving Spiegel with major injuries, and his passenger, 59-year-old Connie Kabeary of San Pablo, with minor injuries. The accident occurred about 1.3 miles south of Circle Oaks.
Gail Smith, 49, majorly injured in single-motorcycle crash on Highway 128 in Napa County, California
49-year-old Gail Smith of El Sobrante was injured when his motorcycle crashed on westbound Highway 128 approximately 1 mile east of Pope Valley Road at 4:40 p.m.
The California Highway Patrol says 60-year-old Michael Frates of San Ramon failed to stop in time behind another vehicle that had stopped for the red light at the intersection of southbound Highway 29 at Highway 221 on Sunday afternoon. Frates and his passenger, 54-year-old Carla Frates, were both thrown from the motorcycle and suffered major, but non-life-threatening injuries.
Witnesses say they saw 20-year-old Cameron Nichols passing vehicles unsafely on an I-80 on-ramp, before he passed a semi-truck, lost control and fell onto the roadway, and was run over by it at about 5:37 p.m. Authorities pronounced Nichols dead at the scene of the crash.
A male biker died after a motorcycle accident on the 10 Freeway in downtown Los Angeles early Saturday. Following the crash another vehicle hit the bike while it was down on lanes close to the San Pedro Street exit around 1 a.m. Other vehicles were trying to avoid hitting the victim while he was lying on the road. The cause of the crash is still under investigation.