Briefly in the news

A Costa Mesa man was killed early Sunday when the motorcycle he was

driving crashed into a guard rail on the connector from the southbound

Costa Mesa Freeway to the southbound San Diego Freeway in Costa Mesa.

Paul James Hill, 29, was pronounced dead at the scene at 1:24 a.m.

after suffering “blood-forced trauma to the chest,” Larry Esslinger,

deputy supervising coroner of the Orange County Coroner’s office.

Hill was driving a 1989 Yamaha in the No. 5 lane about 1:20 a.m. when

he made an unsafe turn and hit the guardrail, said California Highway

Patrol Sgt. Joe Reyes.

“[Hill] was ejected and struck the center divider, suffering fatal

injuries,” Reyes said. “It appears no other vehicles were involved in the

crash.”