Missing motorcyclist found dead after crash at Irving highway interchange
The Irving Police Department is investigating a fatality accident that occurred sometime late last week at the interchange of Highway 183 and the President George Bush Turnpike.
At 2:51AM on Friday, November the 13th, a driver called 9-1-1 to report a crashed motorcycle along the ramp from southbound President George Bush Turnpike to westbound Highway 183. The driver of the motorcycle was not located, leading police to believe he or she left the scene after the crash. The motorcycle was towed.
Yesterday (Saturday afternoon), the Irving Police Department was contacted by the Richardson Police Department to assist in a Missing Person investigation that was being conducted by their agency. When Irving officers logged the motorcycle’s license plate, it pinged a relation to the Missing Person investigation.
Officers responded back out to the interchange to conduct another search of the driver in the daylight. At around 2:00PM on Saturday, officers located the body of a man in a grassy median along Highway 183. It was determined he was the motorcyclist who crashed and was reported missing late last week.
Traffic investigators believe the man was driving his motorcycle on the ramp late at night when he veered to the left and hit the wall, ejecting him off the motorcycle and onto the grassy median about 25 feet below.
Police have identified the man as a 46-year-old resident of Joshua.
