{"id":40293,"date":"2013-07-22T15:47:01","date_gmt":"2013-07-22T22:47:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theavtimes.com\/?p=40293"},"modified":"2013-07-24T12:57:39","modified_gmt":"2013-07-24T19:57:39","slug":"woman-dies-after-motorcycle-crash-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/2013\/07\/22\/woman-dies-after-motorcycle-crash-sunday\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman dies after motorcycle crash Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The fatal collision happened on Angeles Forest Highway, just south of Mount Emma Road in the Antelope Valley area. (Photos by LUIS MEZA)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\"Dawn<\/a>ANTELOPE VALLEY \u2013 A 35-year-old woman was killed Sunday afternoon after her motorcycle was rear ended by another motorcycle when she slowed to make a U-turn, authorities said.<\/p>\n

The fatal collision happened around 12:47 p.m. Sunday (July 21) on Angeles Forest Highway, just south of Mount Emma Road, according to a California Highway Patrol report<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Santa Maria resident Dawn Marie Downey<\/strong> was following her husband,\u00a0Thomas Downey, <\/strong>and both were\u00a0on separate motorcycles traveling southbound on Angeles Forest, when Thomas Downey slowed, made a U-turn onto the northbound shoulder and stopped, according to the CHP report.<\/p>\n

\"Dawn<\/a>As Dawn Downey slowed her 2006 Suzuki GSXR 1000 to make the same U-turn, another motorcycle traveling \u201cat a high rate of speed\u201d slammed into the back of Dawn Downey\u2019s motorcycle, the CHP report states.<\/p>\n

Dawn Downey was thrown from her bike and suffered fatal injuries.<\/p>\n

The second motorcycle was a 2004 Suzuki GSXR 1000 driven by 27-year-old Jorge Garcia<\/strong> of Long Beach, the CHP report states. Garcia was transported by ambulance to Antelope Valley Hospital with major injuries.<\/p>\n

It was unclear from the CHP report whether the Downeys and Garcia were part of a larger group of riders. Photos from the collision scene show several motorcycles at the scene.<\/p>\n

The Antelope Valley Area CHP is currently investigating the fatal collision.<\/p>\n

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ANTELOPE VALLEY \u2013 A 35-year-old woman was killed Sunday afternoon after her motorcycle was rear ended by another motorcycle when she slowed to make a U-turn, authorities said. The fatal collision happened around 12:47 p.m. Sunday (July 21) on Angeles Forest Highway, just south of Mount Emma Road, according to a California Highway Patrol report. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":40294,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40293"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40293\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}