Crime & Safety

Marine Killed In San Pasqual Valley Road Motorcycle Crash

Breaking: The Camp Pendleton Marine's motorcycle struck a tree off San Pasqual Valley Road east of Escondido Sunday afternoon.

SAN DIEGO, CA -- Authorities Monday said a 26-year-old man killed when his motorcycle veered off a curving roadway and struck a tree in the San Pasqual area was an active-duty Camp Pendleton Marine.

Steven Michael Cox of San Diego apparently lost control of his westbound motorcycle when he took a curve too fast in the 18200 block of San Pasqual Valley Road -- east of Escondido -- around 3:45 p.m. Sunday, according to San Diego police and the county Medical Examiner's Office.

Cox died at the scene, authorities said.

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