Motorcyclist dead after crash with 92-year-old driver in Merced County

SNELLING, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – A 72-year-old antheral riding a motorcycle died aft crashing into a motortruck being driven by a 92-year-old antheral successful Merced County, according to the California Highway Patrol.

CHP says officers responded astatine astir 9:45 a.m. to a head-on clang successful the country of Highway 59 and Snelling Road.

Investigators with CHP accidental that a 92-year-old antheral from Coulterville was driving a Toyota motortruck connected Highway 59, approaching Snelling Road. The 72-year-old Hilmar antheral was riding a Honda motorcycle northbound connected Highway 59, approaching Snelling Road astir 55 mph. 

As the 92-year-old approached Snelling Road, CHP said helium slowed down and, for chartless reasons, made an unsafe near crook straight successful the way of the motorcyclist. 

The beforehand of the pick-up motortruck deed the motorcycle, causing the 72-year-old rider to beryllium thrown disconnected the bike. He passed distant astatine the scene. The 92-year-old antheral had large injuries and was transported by aerial to Doctors Medical Center, Modesto.

Neither idiosyncratic progressive has been officially identified.