Motorcycle accident victim purchased vintage bike earlier this year, colleague said

VALLEY CENTER - The planning director for the city of Perris was killed in northern San Diego County when he lost control of his vintage motorcycle and hit a pickup truck head-on, a Medical Examiner's official said today.

Bradley Robert Eckhardt, 48, a Temecula resident, died about 10:30 a.m. Sunday in the crash on Lilac Road south of West Lilac Road in Valley Center, the San Diego County Medical Examiner's Office said.

Eckhardt was riding his 1969 RD350 Yamaha motorcycle southbound when, for unknown reasons, he lost control of the bike and slid into the path of an oncoming Dodge Ram 2500 pick...