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The Alameda County Coroner’s Bureau confirmed the identity of the motorcyclist who died after crashing his bike and getting hit by a big-rig on Interstate 580 in Livermore last Thursday morning.
The decedent was identified as Merced resident Miguel Bernardino. The coroner’s bureau said he was 27 years old, although the original incident report from the California Highway Patrol stated the victim was 30.
The crash occurred just after 5:30 a.m. Thursday (June 13) when the solo rider on a 2019 Suzuki GSX-5 — later identified as Bernardino — was traveling westbound on I-580 west of the North Livermore Avenue exit at a high rate of speed and splitting lanes between the Nos. 2 and 3 lanes, according to the CHP.
Bernardino lost control for unknown reasons and was thrown off his motorcycle onto the freeway directly in the path of a truck tractor-trailer combination vehicle, which fatally struck the downed rider, according to the CHP. The truck driver stopped on the Isabel Avenue off-ramp and was interviewed by officers, the CHP said.
The circumstances of the crash remain under CHP investigation. The Nos. 1 through 5 lanes were closed for approximately 2-1/2 hours during the morning commute that day for the investigation and awaiting the arrival of a coroner’s van, according to the CHP.
