Fatal motorcycle crash, Sunday on Bear Creek Road

[_firstname_@lr_dot_los-gatos_dot_ca_dot_us]

On Sunday 6/29 around 4PM, there was a motorcycle crash on Bear Creek
Road. The information on the CHP website seems to indicate that it
was a single vehicle accident, the bike with two riders went over the
side, one rider went down 20 feet, another 40 feet. One rider died,
the other was airlifted out.

Supposedly, this accident was on Bear Creek Road really really close
to Hwy 9 in Boulder Creek. Unfortunately, this part doesn't make much
sense to me. If you start in Boulder Creek, the road goes through a
pretty level and flat subdivision, then runs along in rolling terrain,
up to the concrete bridge where the road goes over Bear Creek (the
small river), about 3 miles from Boulder Creek. Only after that point
does the landscape get steep enough that there is any place where one
call fall 40 feet down a cliff; the really steep cliffs don't actually
happen until near Byington and David Bruce vineyards.

Does someone have some more accurate information on where this
accident actually happened? And is there any information about what
might have caused it, or what went wrong? Captain Scruggs, to the
white courtesy phone please. The only reasons I'm asking this is idle
curiosity, in particular on the part of the bike riding community.

Thanks!

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Ralph Becker-Szendy _firstname_@lr_dot_los-gatos_dot_ca_dot_us
735 Sunset Ridge Road; Los Gatos, CA 95033

[BCFD36]

The wreck was between Huckleberry Ln and Mayfair Rd, on the right hand
side as you head out of town. Although there is not a "cliff" there,
it is at least a 45 degree angle down into the creek there. There is
an even steeper cliff closer in to town, on the same side.

The rest of the description was correct: two victims, one DOA at the
scene that they tried to revive.

Cause: Unknown to me. There was speculation, but I won't go into that.
As far as injuries to the other person, I can't go there either.
"Confidentiality" laws and all that.

It was a pretty ugly scene. I had a rather stiff drink when I got
home.

On a happier note, BCFD is holding the 408th annual Pancake Breakfast
and Sweatathon tomorrow morning. Come on by.

[Jeannie]

If you turn from Highway 9 onto Bear Creek, the crash happened just
past Huckleberry Lane, about 1/4 mile from 9. The people went down
the embankment on the right, which I believe goes down to the creek.
It's a pretty long ways down, for being "in civilization."

Jeannie