Kansas City, KS :Motorcyclist killed after motorcycle collided with a car on US 24 Saturday afternoon ,September 5th 2015

A motorcyclist was killed Saturday afternoon when the motorcycle collided with a car that was traveling the wrong way on US-24 highway, authorities said.

The crash was reported about 3:45 p.m. in the westbound lanes of US-24 about one half-mile west of the on-ramp from N.W. Goodyear Road.

Shortly after the collision, a blue tarp covered the body of the motorcyclist, several feet away from the motorcycle. The car, which had a shattered windshield and driver’s side window, as well as heavy damage to its front end, had come to rest facing west in the inside lane near the grassy median.

No information about the motorcyclist was available as of 7:30 p.m., nor was any information about the driver of the car. The condition of the car’s driver wasn’t immediately released.

Kansas Highway Patrol troopers and Shawnee County sheriff’s deputies closed the two westbound lanes of US-24, diverting traffic onto N.W. Goodyear Road and then west onto N.W. Frontage Road.

Trooper Tanner Blakesley said the car was traveling east in the westbound lanes when it struck the motorcycle.

Eastbound traffic, including dozens of other motorcyclists, continued past the scene as law enforcement officers bagged evidence and took photos. Debris from the vehicles covered the roadway between the points where the car and motorcycle came to rest.

A van from the county coroner’s office arrived about 5:40 p.m., and a tow service vehicle arrived soon afterward.


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KHP: Motorcyclist killed in wrong-way crash on US-24