The 28-year-old son of the mayor of Half Moon Bay died in a motorcycle accident this weekend, leaving his family devastated.
"There is no way of saying how I feel," Joaquin Jimenez-Urena, Half Moon Bay 's mayor, told KTVU on Sunday. "Nothing compares to this." His son, Joaquin Dominik Jimenez Alvarado, was killed Saturday while riding a motorcycle in unincorporated San Mateo County .He crashed with a pickup truck at Highway 1 and Mirada Road around 5:45 p.m., according to the San Mateo County Sheriff's Office.
Jimenez-Urena said his son was a "good boy," who didn't drink or smoke. He was a maintenance engineer and worked at the Chase Center in San Francisco, among other facilities.Jiminez Alvarado is survived by his father, the first Mexican mayor of Half Moon Bay, his mother, Veronica, and his 21-year-old sister, Myla. In 2020, Jimenez-Urena was elected as the first Mexican immigrant to serve on the Half Moon Bay City Council.
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