Fullerton Police Officers were dispatched to the area of W. Orangethorpe Ave and Campus Dr. on Thursday, April 25, 2024, at approximately 9:05 PM, regarding a traffic collision involving a vehicle and bicyclist.
Upon arrival, officers located an adult male bicyclist in the roadway with traumatic injuries and a black Dodge Journey in proximity. The driver of the Dodge, a 19-year-old resident of Buena Park, remained at the scene of the collision. Fullerton Fire responded and pronounced the male adult bicyclist deceased.
The preliminary investigation revealed that the Dodge was traveling eastbound on Orangethorpe Ave in the number one lane from Auto Center Dr at an unknown speed. The bicyclist was traveling in an unknown direction on Orangethorpe Ave in the eastbound number one lane west of Campus Dr. when the Dodge Journey struck the bicyclist.
The Orange County Coroner will release the identity of the deceased bicyclist upon notification of the next of kin.
At this time, Accident Investigators do not suspect any other vehicles were involved, and drugs or alcohol do not appear to have been a factor in the cause of the collision.
Accident Investigators seek further information from anyone who might have witnessed this collision. Any witnesses with information about this fatal traffic collision are encouraged to contact Fullerton Police Traffic Accident Investigator Manes at (714) 738-6815 or via email at jmanes@fullertonpd.org. Those wishing to provide information anonymously can call the Orange County Crime Stoppers at 1(855) TIP-OCCS or visit their website at occrimestoppers.org.
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This is horrible. My heart goes out to the victim and their loved ones. Traffic deaths are invariably terrible and heartbreaking.
When will the City of Fullerton wake up and realize that their resistance to creating safer active transportation infrastructure is KILLING people? They say we need to see “accidents” to justify changes, but then they ignore the deaths that do occur. We can’t just politely ask drivers to drive more safely around pedestrians and bicyclists, pretty please. We need infrastructure that enforces safe driving and that physically separates active transport users from the deadly weapons that are cars.
Fullerton just announced a Safe Streets for All plan. And just a couple weeks later, another bicyclist death on Orangethorpe. One of our traffic staff had previously said that they thought endeavors like LA’s Vision Zero were unrealistic and therefore not worth pursuing. Okay, then, how many deaths ARE acceptable? And since our City seems totally fine with road deaths, how would our elected officials like to decide who lives and who dies? What’ll it be, names from a hat, or a lottery wheel?
Enough is enough. We have to create better, safer infrastructure. No more deaths on our roads. Everyone comes home safe.