Crime & Safety
(UPDATED 3/2, 8:30 a.m.) Motorcyclist Dies After Parking Lot Collision in Jessup
This is the second fatal motorcycle crash in greater Elkridge reported by police in the past two weeks.
A motorcyclist from Pennsylvania died Tuesday after losing control of his vehicle and crashing into a truck in a Jessup parking lot, according to police.
The driver of the motorcycle has been identified as Stacy Summers, 38, of Spring Grove, PA, police said in a written statement Wednesday morning.
At 2:08 p.m., police responded to reports of a collision on the 7900 block of Oceano Avenue in Jessup, said Howard County police spokeswoman Elizabeth Schroen.
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Summers, who had been driving a KTM SMR 525 Enduro, was pronounced dead on the scene, according to officials, and was not wearing a helmet when he lost control of his vehicle, hit a curb and struck the back of a pickup truck in the parking lot of Frank's Seafood in Jessup.
The driver of the 2007 GMC truck, Timothy Mark Sughrue, 54, of Centreville, was uninjured, reported police.
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Officials are continuing to investigate but said preliminary information indicates the motorcycle may have had a mechanical problem. Police said the GMC was traveling at a slow rate of speed and could not have avoided the collision.
This was the second fatal crash involving a motorcycle in Jessup in two weeks. On Feb. 16, an at Montevideo Road and Route 1 in Jessup, approximately two miles from the site of Tuesday's crash.
On Jan. 10, a, less than a mile from the site of Tuesday's crash.
This article was updated at 8:30 a.m. on March 2 to include the identity of the motorcycle driver and at 5:15 p.m. on March 1 to reflect that the incident was fatal.
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