Newport man dies after bike crash in Huntington Beach

A Newport Beach man died Saturday of a head injury he suffered two days earlier while biking in a Huntington Beach residential tract, police said.

Steven Edward McDonald, 54, fell in the 5100 block of Skylark Drive at about 12:30 p.m. Thursday, Huntington Beach police said.

Officers found him lying on the road with a specialized road bike nearby. He appeared to be unconscious with a serious head injury, police said. He was taken to UCI Medical Center in Orange in critical condition, police said.

He died of his injuries on Saturday at the hospital.

According to a preliminary investigation, McDonald was believed to be riding west on Skylark when he lost control of his bicycle and fell to the ground. No other vehicles were believed to be involved, and the street was free of hazards, police said.

Anyone with information about the case is asked to call Huntington Beach police accident investigators Josh Page at (714) 536-5670 or Robert Barr at (714) 536-5666.

— Anthony Clark Carpio

Twitter: @acocarpio