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“Derrick Mora Dies a Few Days After Motorcycle Accident in Long Beach
Long Beach, CA (October 1, 2020) – On Tuesday, 24-year-old Orange man Derrick Mora, died few days after a motorcycle crash on Pacific Coast Highway.
The fatal Long Beach motorcycle accident took place at about 7:15 pm on September 26, west of Ximeno Avenue. Long Beach police said the victim was riding a 2020 HARLEY DAVIDSON motorcycle going west on Pacific Coast Highway when it crashed with a 2012 Porsche Panamera. Apparently, the Porsche driver pulled from a parking lot, just in front of Mora. As a result, the victim collided into the car. Furthermore, authorities rushed Mora to a hospital, but he succumbed to his injuries days later.”
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Above is what is said when you google my little brother sadly about the worst day of my life. Those words don’t even begin to describe the sad and horrifying experience of it all. So I’m going to share a brief overview due to how hard it is still to talk about.......

My brother was a fine young man and was so full of life, laughter and smiles. Really the list could go on but that was all ripped away from us so fast he was 24 years young and a few weeks from his 25th birthday. The messed up thing is my brothers death was totally avoidable but the driver was careless and made an illegal turn. The horrible part to me is the fact that the driver did not even get out of the car to make sure my brother was okay, to help or call the police. They apparently just sat in the car and watched. From information I have gathered I have come to believe the owner of the vehicle had switched positions making it as if she was not behind the wheel. It’s a weird story .....but apparently report states the lady that owns the car wasn’t driving and her low life boyfriend was and she quoted “she was tired after dinner so he was driving “but he doesn’t have a license, it was 7pm latest and if so tired why go out to eat? Don’t you think being an owner of a vehicle you would realize the severity of having an unlicensed Individual drive your car is against the law and potentially dangerous.?I would imagine you must be super tired to think that was the better of the two options .....doesn’t make any sense but seems she is not having any consequences or the lowlife boyfriend. They took my brothers life, and apart of all of his friends and families piece of the heart, has put my mom so far under in debt of my brothers motorcycle and bills and she is only a minimum wage job employee who rents. I just am struggling with the thought that the court or the legal system doesn’t find my brothers death is meant more and someone should be punished for illegal turning and careless driving. Too many people do not pay full attention to the road, nor realize their car is potentially life-threatening machinery.

Due to the COVID epidemic I had to sneak into the hospital because my family was told only my father and mother could be there . I thought that was not fair and just unbelievable but I had to see him I was going to run in there, bulldoze my way (so I thought ) but came up with another way , by saying I was a relative to another patient in the hospital who had no visitors coming so that i could see his face and try to get him to wake up or to let him know I love him dearly and say goodbye while he was on life support in a coma due to brain damage and internal bleeding. After the accident it was a few days until they concluded there was no brain activity and to pull the plug which was the hardest thing in my mothers and I’s life, for a long time it was my mother, brother and me and in loosing my brother we also lost a part of ourselves. My mom and I just didn’t understand why we had to pull the plug so soon, my mother even tried to give her brain to save him.......she said I have lived enough and he has yet to live. If only there was more we could have done .........that’s exactly what you think over and over when loosing a loved one, if I only took more pictures, if I only called more, if only I didn’t get mad at pointless things, if only I had document more things, if only this or that. Grieving is very hard I have never lost someone i was this close to or had so many feelings for my brother was like a son to me amongst many things like my #1 fan, best friend, brother, mentee, critic, coworker, my look-a-like, my inspiration, motivation and someone who looked up to me and needed me. My brother was someone I guided and protected and I feel I have failed and this loss I won’t be able to come back from I don’t even recognize myself at the moment I realize I have no drive nor any excitement to get up, hygiene nor nutrition is not of importance to me but I can’t fix it even though I’m aware of it. I feel like losing such an incredible human being over someones carelessness and heartless act has been life shattering. I don’t want him to be forgotten or have no restitution but I feel helpless in him getting any justice or the burden of debt lifted from my grieving mother.


But thank you for your time and allowing me to share a little bit of my favorite person with you. I wanted to have a place to share him with others and hope others will share with me. I love to have every picture possible of him to have for my mother and I to remember him so feel free to share stories, pictures or whatever with me it will be greatly appreciated.


My best regards,

Taylor Renee
(Derrick’s older sister)

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Derrick "“K0m3r”" Mora