Witnesses told HPD the man was driving the motorcycle at a high rate of speed around a sharp curve when he hit the outside wall and fell 30 feet to the ground below.
A motorcyclist died overnight after flying off an interchange ramp in east Houston, according to police.
Houston police said the crash happened around 10 p.m. Sunday on the ramp to the Eastex Freeway northbound from I-10. Witnesses told police a man was driving a motorcycle at a high rate of speed around a sharp curve when he hit the outside wall.When Houston fire paramedics arrived, they pronounced the man dead."This is one of the more common motorcycle crashes. As a motorcycle rider myself, you just have to be really careful taking curves at high speeds," Sgt. D. Rose said.
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