Seamus O’Bryan killed, passenger injured after their motorcycle is struck by hit-and-run driver on University Avenue in San Diego, California

The motorcyclist killed in a hit-run accident in North Park early Friday was the prop master for the Old Globe theater, officials there said. Seamus O’Bryan, 32, who also worked at La Jolla Playhouse, died after the 12:35 a.m. collision. A passenger on his bike, a 31-year-old man whose name was not released, was hospitalized with several injuries, San Diego police said. Police had only a vague description of the hit-and-run driver as a male in a white or cream-colored four-door sedan, probably a Cadillac. O’Bryan and his passenger were headed east on University Avenue, approaching Granada Avenue, about 12:35 a.m. when a westbound car turned left across their path, police said. Police said the motorcycle driver might have laid the bike down before the vehicles collided, but the momentum caused him to slam into the Cadillac. The car driver kept going. Paramedics took the victims to a hospital, where O’Bryan died. The passenger suffered scrapes, bruises and possible chest and leg injuries. Witnesses told police the Cadillac might be a 2000 Seville or Deville with tinted windows and chrome wheels. There may be minor damage to its front fender where the motorcyclist hit it, Mayer said.