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Portage motorcyclist dies in accident on city street

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A Portage motorcyclist was killed Saturday after hitting a tree on Evelyn Street, Portage Police said.

According to police, at 3:43 a.m. Jeramy McWhirter, 43, was northbound on Evelyn Street when he failed to negotiate the left turn onto westbound Lark Ave., continued straight up the driveway of the residence at the corner, and into the yard, where McWhirter struck the tree, then the residence itself, with enough force to cause damage to the house’s foundation and siding.

Two witnesses, inside their homes at the time of the crash, told investigators that they first “heard a motorcycle’s engine revving on Evelyn,” getting “louder and louder” as it approached, and then “the squeal of brakes” just before the sound of impact.

Police said that McWhirter’s 2001 AMF FXS Series motorcycle left 68 feet of skid marks leading to the curb in front of the residence.

 

Posted 6/24/2015

 
 
 
 
 

 

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