70-year-old motorcyclist dies in head-on crash with truck, Louisiana police say

A 70-year-old motorcyclist was killed in a head-on crash on a Louisiana highway, troopers said.

Robert D. Reich of Forest Hill was riding a 2014 Harley Davidson south along Louisiana Highway 107 near the Louisiana Highway 115 Cutoff Road on Aug. 28, according to a news release from Louisiana State Police.

Reich then veered across the center lanes of the highway into oncoming traffic and hit a 2021 Ford F-150 head-on, the release said.

Reich, who was wearing a helmet, was pronounced dead at the scene, and both the driver and passenger in the truck were uninjured, according to the release. Investigators are still determining why Reich veered into the northbound lanes of the highway.

This story was originally published August 30, 2022 at 12:47 PM with the headline "70-year-old motorcyclist dies in head-on crash with truck, Louisiana police say."

Alison Cutler

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Alison Cutler is a National Real Time Reporter for the Southeast at McClatchy. She graduated from the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University and previously worked for The News Leader in Staunton, VA, a branch of USAToday.