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Ramona business owner killed in motorcycle accident

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James Joseph “Jim” Mann, Ramona resident and owner of the Boll Weevil restaurant in Ramona, was killed Monday afternoon in an accident on State Route 79, .8 mile north of Camino San Ignacio in Warner Springs, the county medical examiner’s office reports.

Mann was northbound on a motorcycle when, according to authorities, he failed to negotiate a curve and collided with a passenger car in the southbound lane.

A witness stopped to render aid and, despite aggressive resuscitative efforts by emergency personnel responding to the accident, Mann was pronounced dead at the scene.

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