Name Of Marine Released After Fatal Motorcycle Crash

by youngturk | February 21, 2009 at 10:33 pm

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Marines have been getting into a lots of motorcycle accidents lately. The fatalities are at an all time high. My guess is that they have PTSD from too many deployments. Here is a real tragic story I found on a website run by a lawyer who was a U.S. Marine.

February 21, 2009 )

According to reports the military authorities at Camp Pendleton have released the name of a Marine who was killed in a North County motorcycle accident.

The Marine has been identified as Cpl. Bradley Waterman a resident of Elkhart Indiana who was fatally injured in a motorcycle accident while traveling eastbound on State Route 76.

Cpl. Waterman was riding a 2001 Honda CBR-900 and according to the California Highway Patrol and officials from Camp Pendleton.

California Highway Patrol Officer Sgt. Tom Greenstone the crash occurred at approximately 11:30 a.m. when the Cpl. was traveling eastbound on State Route 76 and on a curve slide into the westbound lane in the vicinity of Ramona Drive and Cpl. Watterman was struck by a 2002 Chevrolet Avalanche.

The driver of the Avalanche has been identified as a 58 year old man from Capistrano Beach who pulled over after the crash and along with other passersby preformed CPR on Cpl. Waterman until emergency personnel could arrive at the scene of the crash.

After attempting to resuscitate the Marine failed the medical personnel on the scene pronounced the Marine dead at the crash scene.