Motorcyclist beheaded in freak accident on California road

A motorcyclist was decapitated Tuesday morning in a freak accident in San Bernardino.Fabian Zepeda, 27, was killed when he drove into a wire stretched across a road from a snapped utility pole, San Bernardino police said.Minutes earlier, a driver lost control of a Ford Taurus, which hit a mailbox and ran across a lawn, police told the Riverside Press-Enterprise. The car then hit a wooden telephone pole that snapped in half, and a tension wire fell across Macy Street, coroner's officials said. Zepeda drove into it and was beheaded.The driver didn't appear to be intoxicated and wasn't immediately arrested pending further investigation, police said.

A motorcyclist was decapitated Tuesday morning in a freak accident in San Bernardino.

Fabian Zepeda, 27, was killed when he drove into a wire stretched across a road from a snapped utility pole, San Bernardino police said.


Minutes earlier, a driver lost control of a Ford Taurus, which hit a mailbox and ran across a lawn, police told the Riverside Press-Enterprise.

The car then hit a wooden telephone pole that snapped in half, and a tension wire fell across Macy Street, coroner's officials said.

Zepeda drove into it and was beheaded.

The driver didn't appear to be intoxicated and wasn't immediately arrested pending further investigation, police said.