Witnesses detained the attacker until sheriff’s deputies arrived.
A bicyclist is dead in Orange County after being stabbed by a driver who had just crashed into him, a sheriff’s spokesman said.
The attack happened around 3 p.m. Wednesday on Pacific Coast Highway in Dana Point. The bicyclist, in the highway’s northbound lanes, had been stopped at a red light when he was struck from behind by a white Lexus. The impact threw the cyclist and his bike all the way across the intersection. The Lexus’ driver pulled over, got out of his car and attacked the fallen man, witnesses said. The sheriff’s department confirmed reports that the victim was stabbed.
Witnesses detained the attacker until sheriff’s deputies arrived and arrested him. The bicyclist was taken to a hospital; his death was announced shortly before 6 p.m. Investigators said the crash was intentional and are attempting to determine if the men knew each other,Surveillance video from a nearby home shows the northbound bicyclist stopped to the left of a right-turn lane. As a southbound car completes a left turn in front of the waiting traffic, the bicyclist begins to move forward into the crosswalk — and is struck by the Lexus that comes up quickly behind him and continues across the intersection.
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