A solo motorcycle crash near the Haggin Oaks Golf Complex in north Sacramento turned deadly Monday night, leaving one man dead and briefly shutting down a stretch of Roseville Road while police pieced together what happened.
Officers and emergency crews were called to the intersection of Roseville Road and Connie Drive around 10:30 p.m. There, they found a lone rider with severe injuries who was pronounced dead at the scene, according to ABC10. The collision temporarily closed part of Roseville Road while investigators examined the site.
The Sacramento County Coroner's Office will release the man’s identity once his family has been notified, ABC10 reports. No cause for the crash has been released, and the investigation is ongoing.
Where it happened
The wreck occurred on Roseville Road at Connie Drive in the Del Paso Park and Haggin Oaks area, a busy north Sacramento corridor that runs alongside the Haggin Oaks Golf Complex. That stretch is listed in the county’s Local Road Safety Plan as one of several corridors with motorcycle-involved crashes, a data point county transportation planners use when targeting safety projects, according to Sacramento County.
Motorcycle risk on California roads
Motorcycle deaths remain a stubborn problem on California roads. UC Berkeley’s SafeTREC reported that in 2022, motorcyclists accounted for roughly 14 percent of the state’s traffic fatalities, even though they make up only a small share of registered vehicles. The group notes that unsafe speed and right-of-way violations are among the leading factors in fatal motorcycle crashes, highlighting an ongoing safety challenge across urban corridors statewide, according to SafeTREC.
