Plaque at Medical Examiner's office
Plaque outside the office of the San Diego County Medical Examiner. Photo by Chris Jennewein

Authorities have publicly identified a 33-year-old man who was killed over the Fourth of July weekend in a motorcycle crash on state Route 76 near Palomar Mountain.

Jorge Villa of Temecula was trying to pass a slower-moving pickup truck about 6:30 p.m. Sunday when his westbound two-wheeler struck the larger vehicle in the area of Sengme Oaks Road in Pauma Valley, according to the San Diego County Medical Examiner’s Office and California Highway Patrol.

The motorcycle then veered off the roadway and struck a tree. Villa died at the scene of the accident.

–City News Service