RCMP say a 69-year-old motorcyclist is dead following a crash involving a pickup truck roughly 20 kilometres west of Edmonton on Thursday morning.
Mounties were called to the scene on Highway 627 near Range Road 273 in Parkland County just after 6 a.m.
Police found the rider of the motorcycle, a man from Edmonton, dead at the scene.
The 82-year-old driver of the pickup truck from Spruce Grove was uninjured.
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Police remained at the scene throughout the morning as a collision reconstructionist tried to piece together the events. The highway was closed throughout that work but was expected to open up early Thursday afternoon.
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It was the second fatal crash in the Edmonton area on Thursday.
Just hours before, a 21-year-old woman died in a single-vehicle crash east of Sherwood Park.
Mounties didn’t immediately disclose a cause behind either crash.
Old farmer guaranteed had bald tires for one to just randomly blow out.
Deserves jail time for killing an innocent man through his own neglect. If I were the family, I’d be suing the old farmers family into the stone ages.