The crash happened around 5 p.m. on Memorial Day on a stretch of highway near Carson Pass.
A motorcyclist from Hayward was killed Monday in a head-on crash on a Sierra Nevada highway, the California Highway Patrol said.The crash was reported around 5 p.m. May 27 on Highway 88 about 7 miles east of Kirkwood ski resort.
The Hayward man — Marcus Canizales, 50 — was riding west, toward Carson Pass, on his Harley Davidson. Witnesses told the CHP that, on a section of the two-lane highway near Red Lake, he crossed the double yellow line and collided with a motorcycle in the eastbound lane. Both men were thrown from their motorcycles. Canizales died at the scene. The other motorcyclist, a 52-year-old man from Gardnerville, Nev., suffered major injuries and was taken to a hospital in South Lake Tahoe, the CHP report said.Dear Abby: I am not OK with my new girlfriend going to this wedding.
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