Teen Identified as Fatality in Bicycle Crash
From Times Staff Reports
A bicyclist who died after being struck by a car near the Santa Ana Freeway was identified Friday as a 15-year-old boy from Lake Forest.
Authorities said Marlon Retana was riding the wrong way on Lake Forest Drive about 8:15 p.m. Thursday when he was hit by a Corvette entering the northbound freeway onramp.
He died at Mission Hospital Regional Medical Center in Mission Viejo.
The driver of the Corvette was not cited, a spokeswoman for the California Highway Patrol said, though the crash is under investigation.
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