Man Killed in Hesperia Motorcycle Crash ID’d

HESPERIA:(VVNG.com)- The San Bernardino Coroner’s office has identified the motorcyclist killed on the 4th of July as 21-year-old Jose Daniel Rocha Oregel, a resident of Hesperia.

On Monday at 11:27 a.m. dispatch received a report of a traffic collision involving a motorcycle and a semi at the intersection of Bear Valley Road and Ninth Avenue.

Authorities said Oregel was operating his 2007 Yamaha R6 motorcycle eastbound on Bear Valley Road when he collided with a blue 2013 Freightliner truck turning left onto Ninth Avenue from westbound Bear Valley Road.

Emergency medical providers arrived at the scene and pronounced Rocha dead at the scene.

The driver of the semi was also injured but treated at the scene before being released.

The incident is under investigation by the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department, Major Accident Investigation Team.

(photo by Hugo C. Valdez, Victor Valley News)