A 68-year-old Rancho Santa Margarita woman is dead after her motorcycle veered off a rural stretch of State Route 79 near Warner Springs and slammed into a boulder, killing her at the scene. The solo crash happened around 10:15 a.m. Saturday as she rode south through the winding San Diego County highway on a 2020 Harley-Davidson.
According to details reported by the MyNewsLA.com, the woman’s motorcycle left the roadway just north of Fink Road before striking the boulder. The California Highway Patrol has withheld her name pending family notification, and the agency reported the route, vehicle and crash details to the outlet.
CHP Public-Affairs Officer Jasmine Lopez said the investigation into the crash remains ongoing, and that it is not yet known whether drugs or alcohol played a role. No cause for the crash has been determined.
A Stretch of Highway With a Deadly History
State Route 79 through the Warner Springs area has been the site of other fatal motorcycle crashes in recent months. Andrew James Netherton, 52, died after his motorcycle crashed on SR-79 near Orchard Lane in Julian on July 3, as reported by the San Diego Union-Tribune. That same day, Thomas Alan McDonald, 70, suffered fatal blunt-force head and neck trauma in a motorcycle crash on nearby State Route 67 near Vigilante Road, the paper’s report notes…