A 59-year-old Grays Harbor County man was killed when his motorcycle collided with a pickup on Oct. 11 along southbound State Route 167 near Southwest 43rd Street (South 180th Street) near the Renton-Kent border, according to the Washington State Patrol.<\/p>\n
Darren L. Dyer, of Grayland, reportedly made an unsafe lane change from lane three to four directly in front of a black 2016 Ford F250 pickup when not reasonably safe for traffic conditions, according to a State Patrol press memo. Dyer died at the scene.<\/p>\n
The driver of the pickup, a 35-year-old Auburn man, was unable to slow and struck the rear of the motorcycle, a gold 2003 Harley Davidson FLHRSEI-1. The collision ejected Dyer who landed in lane four. The motorcycle slid across the roadway and struck in lane two a light green 2018 Hyundai Kona driven by a 64-year-old Kent woman. The drivers of the pickup and Hyundai were not injured.<\/p>\n
The crash occurred at about 2 p.m. The roadway was blocked for approximately three hours.<\/p>\n
“According to witnesses, the motorcycle made an abrupt lane change in front of a large pickup in the HOV lane that was pulling a trailer and was struck and then struck another vehicle,” according to State Patrol Trooper Rick Johnson.<\/p>\n
This marked the fifth motorcyclist death in the last four months in the Kent area. Three of the deaths were along Highway 167.<\/p>\n
• On June 6, Dylan A. Hague, 28, of Kent, was killed when his motorcycle crashed into the back of a construction truck setting signage just after midnight along Highway 167 in Kent.<\/p>\n
• On June 7, a 36-year-old San Jose, Calif., man died after his motorcycle crashed at about 3:55 p.m. while northbound on Highway 167 in Pacific (south of Kent) near the Ellingson Road exit, according to the Washington State Patrol.<\/p>\n
• On June 28, Sergey Pavlovich, 18, of Kent, died of multiple blunt force injury when he collided with a Kent Police SUV in the 13700 block of Southeast 256th Street.<\/p>\n
• On Oct. 2, Karrell Taylor, 23, died when his motorcycle collided with a truck in Kent near the intersection of Willis Street and Washington Avenue South, just north of LA Fitness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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