He literally didn’t see it coming.
A bicyclist who was thrown under a bus when a motorhome struck him remembers being in a “cyclone,” but apparently didn’t see what struck him.
Ed Eason, the man who was struck said he suffered a broken elbow, clavicle, scapula, shoulder blade and multiple broken ribs.
According to Seal Beach Police Sgt. Steve Bowles, a motorhome struck the bicyclist, a collision which threw the bicyclist under an Orange County Transportation Agency bus on Sunday, Sept. 13.
The accident took place in the northbound lane of Pacific Coast Highway, near the intersection of PCH and Balboa/12th Street.
According to the SBPD dispatch log, police received a report of a man under a bus at 12:09 p.m., Sept. 13.
Bowles said there was no evidence that anyone was under the influence of alcohol at the time of the accident.
Bowles said that the bicyclist was leaving the Pavilions parking lot, trying to get around the parked bus, when the motorhome struck the bike rider.
Eason said was returning to Seal Beach from Huntington Beach.
“As I went over the bridge, I put my red blinking caution light on because of traffic,” he said.
“(I) was wearing (a) bright yellow shirt with khaki cut-off shorts and helmet,” Eason said.
“I was riding along, came to a parked city bus in the bike lane (buses park there all the time by Vons Pavilions),” Eason said.
Although Eason described it as a city bus, Seal Beach does not have its own bus line. The police identified the bus as an OCTA bus.
“I was not going fast, went around the bus, got past to about the middle of the bus, looked in my rear view mirror out of fear, didn’t think the bus driver was going to hit me, then I got crushed under the bus,” Eason said.
He was right, of course, the bus driver didn’t hit him—police have said it was a motorhome that hit him.
“I felt like I was in a cyclone, crushed up into the bus and lifted up as being crushed, I don’t remember anything else,” Eason said.
“Next thing I remember, I was in the ER in trauma unit,” Eason said.
“Monday, I was in severe pain.
Tuesday, still in severe pain and discomfort. Wednesday, asked pain level on a scale of 1-10, I said 9,” Eason said.
