Motorcyclist Killed on 105 in South Bay

Originally posted at 9:57 a.m. Oct. 5, 2014. Edited with new details.

A motorcyclist was speeding on an onramp to the elevated 105 Freeway in El Segundo when he crashed and was killed near LAX just before midnight today.

The California Highway Patrol identified the motorcyclist as Richard Moore, 36, of Los Angeles.

The crash was at 11:55 p.m. Saturday on the onramp from Imperial Highway, just east of Sepulveda Boulevard, said CHP Officer Pete Bishop.

Moore was speeding east on a 2002 Suzuki motorcycle and was going up onto the elevated freeway when he lost control and hit a barrier wall, according to a CHP crash report.

Moore was thrown from the bike and hit a light pole. He then fell approximately 45 feet over the side of the onramp bridge onto eastbound Imperial Highway.

Witnesses told the CHP other vehicles collided as their drivers trying to avoid the downed motorcycle rider.

The ramp and the road beneath it were shut down about an hour.

--City News Service

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