CHARLOTTE, N.C. — A motorcyclist was killed Wednesday afternoon when he crashed into a tractor-trailer in southwest Charlotte, police said.
Investigators told Channel 9 that Andre Williams, 40, was driving his motorcycle at a high rate of speed on South Tryon Street when he struck the back of the tractor-trailer as it was making a turn.
Police said excessive speed was a factor in the fatal crash, and that the drivers of the tractor-trailer and dump truck were not charged.
Police said Williams was thrown from his motorcycle. The impact was so violent that the motorcycle became stuck under the trailer and was dragged a quarter of a mile until the driver saw it in his rearview mirror and stopped.
Police said after Williams was thrown from his motorcycle, he was then run over by a dump truck.
A witness told police the motorcycle had been going 70 miles an hour in a 45 mile an hour zone.
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