The Florida Highway Patrol was hoping to identify a motorcyclist who died Tuesday afternoon when his bicycle struck a car on the Golden Gate, troopers said.
They said a passenger in the car was seriously injured.
According to officers, a male motorcyclist was heading east on 19th Place Southwest around 3:45 pm when he failed to maintain his lane on a curve approaching Sunset Road. It collided with the front of a pickup truck driven by a 46-year-old Naples man.
The motorcyclist abandoned the machine, which crashed into a parked car in the 4300 block of 19th Place Southwest. The motorcyclist died at the scene.
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A passenger in the truck, a 27-year-old Naples man, was seriously injured, officers said.
Florida Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles reported four fatalities on Collier County roads in 2023, with 275 crashes and 212 injuries.
Stacey Henson is the breaking news and pictures editor for The Naples Daily News and Fort Myers News-Press. She can be reached at shenson@gannett.com
