By Staff
April 18, 2016
BURLINGTON, ON
The Halton Regional Police released the following additional information on the three fatalities resulting from the motorcycle – vehicle accident on Dundas at Eaglesfield Drive Saturday evening.
A 2002 Ford Escape was westbound on Dundas Street, approaching Eaglesfield Drive in Burlington. The driver, a sixty-one year old Burlington man, began to make a left turn onto Eaglesfield Drive, when an eastbound 2009 Suzuki motorcycle struck the right side of the Ford.
The operator of the motorcycle, Mitchel Crate, was thrown from his vehicle and came to rest within the Ford.
A thirty-five year old female from Waterdown who had been riding on the back of the motorcycle was thrown from the vehicle and came to rest on the grass at the southeast corner of the intersection. All three parties were pronounced dead at the scene.
The specifics of the collision are still under investigation, but police believe that the speed of the motorcycle was a factor.
