The California Highway Patrol has identified the Hollister man
killed March 20 while riding a motorcycle on Hwy. 25 as Kyle A.
Weaver.
Weaver, 32, was killed last Friday evening when his motorcycle
struck a semi-tractor trailer on Hwy. 25 near Bolado Road,
according to a statement from the CHP.
Weaver, 32, was killed last Friday evening when his motorcycle struck a semi-tractor trailer on Hwy. 25 near Bolado Road, according to a statement from the CHP.
CHP spokesman Matt Peters has said the agency is examining who was responsible for the accident.
While riding a 2008 Kawasaki Ninja motorcycle, Weaver had been northbound on Hwy. 25 south of Bolado Road.
The driver of a 2000 Volvo semi-tractor trailer was turning onto the road from the county historical park driveway and had been blocking both the northbound and southbound lanes when the motorcycle driver came around a curve and could not come to a complete stop before hitting the trailer’s rear, according to the CHP.
The CHP spokesman identified the truck driver as Stepan Stadnik, 32, of Sacramento.
Authorities pronounced Weaver dead at the scene. Both lanes of Hwy. 25 were closed for about two and a half hours.
Since his death, family and friends have shown an outpouring of support, particularly on a Web site honoring him at www.kyleweaver.net.
The site’s introduction, in part, had this to say about Weaver:
“One thing about Kyle that touched us all was the wide range of friends that he kept. Kyle was friends with people of all faiths, ethnicities, gender and age. If you werea good person that was honest and doing right, Kyle most likely would become your friend.”
Weaver was active, an adrenaline junky of sorts. He loved motorcycle riding, water skiing and snowboarding. He also recently “fulfilled a dream” of jumping from an airplane, noted Jo Cameron, owner of DeJa Vu salon where he worked the past 12 years, and who is also his cousin’s wife.
“If you were a cool person, you were a friend of Kyle’s,” she said.
Cameron referred to Weaver as having the “biggest heart ever” and someone who would go the extra mile for others. Along with other family members and friends of Weaver, she is mourning his loss this week
Weaver was born in Hollister and lived here until age 4. He moved back after high school – his parents still live in Idaho – and since then had worked for DeJa Vu after finishing classes at Wayne’s Beauty College in Salinas, Cameron said.
In describing Weaver’s tendency to help others, Cameron recalled how one of his longtime clients’ health had been declining for a while. Each Wednesday, he would meet her at the bottom of the stairs to help her to the second-floor salon. That went on for months, she said.
“The last time she was here,” Cameron said, “he actually carried her down to the car. That shows his character. You could never out-give Kyle. He’d give the shirt off his back. He was a real guy.”
Cameron also said Weaver loved to travel and had especially aspired to fly overseas to Europe at some point.
“He died doing something he loved to do, and we will greatly miss him.”
The website went on to note that people can make a donation to one of his favorite charities in his name – Locks of Love, the American Cancer Society or Emmaus House.
According to his obituary, published in South Valley Obituaries:
Kyle Adam Weaver was born on February 9, 1977 in Hollister.
He is survived by his father Charles Dean Weaver and mother Carole W. Weaver; brother Kevan Dean (wife Shari) residing in Seattle, Wash.; sister Wendy Ann Palmer (husband Wayne) residing in American Falls, Idaho; sister Tara Sue Elliot (husband Mike) residing in Boise, Idaho; brother Kory Sean Weaver residing in Boise, Idaho; and his grandmothers Bethia Weaver and Viola Workman. He is also survived by nieces and nephews Jess, Ali, Sam, Jake, Isaac, Olivia, Cortney, Tyler, McKinzie, and Madalyn.
He was preceded in death by his sister Carlene Marie Carter and grandfathers Charles Evan Weaver and Wendell Ovie Workman.
