A MOTORCYCLIST was killed in a crash in Huntington Beach on Pacific Coast Highway (Shutterstock).

An investigation is continuing into a fatal traffic accident earlier his week in Huntington Beach.

According to the HBPD, police responded to a report of a traffic collision at around 1:11 p.m. on Sunday at the intersection of Pacific Coast Highway and 11th Street between a grey Land Rover LR2 and a red Harley Davidson motorcycle.

Arriving officers found the rider of the Harley, a 21-year-old man from Pico Rivera, unconscious in the roadway. Paramedics were called to the scene and he was taken to a nearby hospital where he was pronounced deceased.

The driver of a Land Rover, a 62-year-old Huntington Beach man, was uninjured. He cooperated with investigators and it doesn’t appear that impairment was a factor in the crash.

The preliminary investigation indicates the Land Rover was traveling southbound on PCH and was making a left turn to travel northbound onto 11th Street . The motorcycle was traveling northbound on PCH and entered the intersection where the collision occurred.
Anyone who may have witnessed the collision or events leading up to it is asked to call HBPD Traffic Investigator C. Houlston at (714) 536-5670.