A 42-year-old man from Felton died Sunday afternoon in a two-vehicle crash near Magnolia, pushing Delaware’s roadway fatalities to near-record numbers.
Troopers were called to Irish Hill Road at its intersection with Almond Avenue just after 3:45 p.m. for reports of the crash between a motorcycle and a GMC SUV. There, they found the motorcyclist badly hurt.
He was rushed to a local hospital, where he was pronounced dead, police said.
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Through their investigation, troopers determined the motorcyclist was driving east on Irish Hill Road toward Almond Avenue when the SUV began turning left onto Almond Avenue from the opposite direction.
The SUV turned into the path of the motorcyclist and the front tire of the vehicle hit the SUV’s bumper. The motorcyclist, who was wearing a helmet, was ejected, police said.
Those in the SUV, which included a 37-year-old man from Magnolia, a 55-year-old woman, a 9-year-old girl, an 8-year-old girl and a 2-year-old girl, were all wearing seatbelts and uninjured.
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The man’s death brings the total number of people killed on Delaware roads this year to 158, seven shy of the state’s record 165 people killed in in 1988.
As of Sunday’s wreck, there had been 18 people killed in 18 days in Delaware, an average of one person per day.
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