HOUSTON – A 23-year-old man is dead after crashing a motorcycle into a tractor-trailer on the Southwest Freeway Thursday afternoon.
Houston police responded to reports of a crash in the 10000 block of the Southwest Freeway around 12:15 p.m.
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Officers said the motorcyclist was driving a Honda motorcycle on the Southwest Freeway at a high rate of speed and weaving in and out of traffic when he entered the lane behind a tractor-trailer truck and braked heavily, crashing into the rear end of the trailer.
The motorcyclist lost control and fell to the ground. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
The driver of the tractor-trailer truck, who was determined not to be impaired, remained at the scene and was questioned and released.