Temecula man fatally injured in Pauma crash identified

PAUMA VALLEY - A 20-year-old Temecula man who was fatally injured in a collision in Pauma Valley that also killed a motorcyclist was publicly identified Monday.

Chance Keakaokalani Shinn was gravely injured when the Honda Civic in which he was a passenger veered into oncoming traffic on state Route 76 and collided with a motorcyclist near Pauma Valley Road on the afternoon of July 6, according to the California Highway Patrol and the county Medical Examiner's Office. Shinn was airlifted to a hospital, where his condition declined until his death from complications of blunt force trauma 10 days later.

The motorcyclist, 78-year-old John J. Van Wyke of Rialto, died at the scene shortly after the crash.

The 18-year-old Temecula woman behind the wheel of the Honda suffered a broken arm, authorities said.