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 SAN BERNARDINO >> A motorcyclist was decapitated in a freak accident after the rider drove into a guy-wire stretched across a roadway following an unrelated crash Tuesday morning. Fabian Zepeda, 27, was riding his motorcycle on Macy Street in San Bernardino, California, just after 9:10 a.m. when he was beheaded by a downed electrical wire that was hanging across the roadway, the San Bernardino County Coroner said in a statement. A few minutes later, the rider, only identified as a 28-year-old Yucaipa man, also traveling south, drove into the path of the wire. Both incidents are being investigated by San Bernardino police and the California Highway Patrol. Police told the San Bernardino Sun that the Taurus that hit the pole was driven by a man who did not appear intoxicated, though he was interviewed at the scene and his blood was drawn, as is standard practice. The exact cause of the Taurus’ crash was not clear, though police said the driver lost control of the vehicle before it hit a mailbox, sped across a residential yard, down the street and into the telephone pole. The driver was not taken into custody, the Sun reports. The case will be forwarded to the San Bernardino County District Attorney’s Office for review and possible filing. Authorities say he was beheaded after his motorcycle rode into a wire that had fallen across the roadway after a car hit a telephone pole moments earlier.
– The man decapitated in a freak motorcycle accident in San Bernardino, Calif., on Tuesday morning has been identified as Fabian Zepeda, a 27-year-old who'd been married for less than a year and whose wife is four months pregnant. "I am very happy to keep a little blessing from my husband," Vanessa Quintana writes on a GoFundMe page, describing her husband, whom she met in 2012, as a "caring, loving, family orientated, unique individual who always managed to care for others before himself." The San Bernardino County coroner says Zepeda was decapitated by a tension wire that had been left stretched across the roadway minutes earlier when a Ford Taurus driver slammed into a telephone pole, breaking it in two, People reports. "At that height at that time, it would have been really hard to see that wire," an investigator tells the San Bernardino Sun. The Taurus driver, who lost control of his vehicle for an unknown reason and rolled through a yard and down the street before hitting the pole, was interviewed by police and didn't appear to be under the influence of alcohol, though a blood sample has been sent for testing, says a San Bernardino police spokesman. The accident is being investigated by the California Highway Patrol as well as the San Bernardino Police Department. The GoFundMe campaign has raised $11,000 as of Friday morning; Quintana is expecting a girl. (This UConn student was killed in a freak SUV accident.)