Pompano Beach man killed in motorcycle crash


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  • | 1:50 p.m. January 27, 2013
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The victim collided into a tree and was thrown from his motorcycle.

BY THE OBSERVER STAFF

A Pompano Beach man was killed in a motorcycle crash on Old Dixie Highway Saturday.

Rene Meigs, 25, was traveling northbound, near Pumphouse Road, at a high rate a speed, according to the Florida Highway Patrol, when he passed a northbound vehicle in the southbound lane. He then tried to pass another vehicle in the northbound lane when he lost control and his vehicle overturned.

Meigs’ motorcycle collided into a tree on the west-side shoulder of the road, and he was ejected from the motorcycle, coming to rest in the roadside grass.

 

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