INDUSTRY >> Authorities have released the identity of a 20-year-old Los Angeles man who was thrown from his motorcycle and run over by a big rig in a crash on the 605 Freeway late Friday.
Manuel Paleo died following the 7:30 p.m. collision on the southbound 605 Freeway near Peck Road, Sgt. S. Coleman of the California Highway Patrol’s Santa Fe Springs office said.
He was riding a 2002 Honda motorcycle when he rode onto the shoulder to try to pass a big rig that was traveling ahead of him in the right-hand lane, the sergeant said.
“The left side of the motorcycle struck the front of the Big Rig,” he said. “This impact caused the motorcyclist to be ejected from the motorcycle. The big rig ran over the motorcyclist.”
Los Angeles County Fire Department Paramedics pronounced Paleo dead at the scene, Coleman said.
Any witnesses were encouraged to contact the Santa Fe Springs office of the CHP at 562-868-0503.