One person is dead, and another one is seriously injured after a September 30, 2024, motorcycle crash in Oceanside.
The Oceanside Police Department responded to calls for a major accident involving multiple vehicles on the Coast Highway just before West Street in Oceanside. According to police, a group of five or six sport motorcycles were heading north when one of the motorcyclists did not see the other slowing down for a car making a left turn and rear-ended the motorcycle, sending both riders into opposing lanes of traffic.
One of the riders was run over by a Toyota Yaris heading south on the Coast Highway, while a second rider continued past the car and ran into the side of a fourth vehicle.
The police department reports one rider was taken to the hospital with major head and chest trauma and was pronounced dead by medical staff. The second rider was treated at the scene for injuries. The two drivers in the vehicles were not injured.
Andrew Jackson Myers, an emigrant from Illinois who briefly lived in the area in the 1850s, may have been the first American to live in what later became Oceanside. When he returned in the 1880s, he asked the U.S. government for a land patent. After the government issued a patent, Oceanside was incorporated on July 3, 1888. The city hall stands on the former Myers homestead.
The town post office contains an oil-on-canvas mural, Air Mail, painted in 1937 by Elsie Seeds. Federally commissioned murals were produced from 1934 to 1943 in the United States through the Section of Painting and Sculpture, later called the Section of Fine Arts, of the Treasury Department.
Today, Oceanside is mostly a vacation home market. But that may be changing. In the 2010s, several mid-rise and high-rise housing and lodging projects were completed in the downtown area, with more to come.
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