One dead in overnight motorcycle crash on I-435 ramp in Kansas City
Update: Police later identified the motorcyclist as 64-year-old Ricky L. Childers.
One man died Friday night after he drove his motorcycle off a ramp to Interstate 435 in Kansas City and was ejected from the vehicle without a helmet on, police said.
In an email Friday morning, Kansas City Police Department spokeswoman Doaa El-Ashkar said police were called to the Northbound ramp to Interstate 435 from Cookingham Drive just after 10:30 Friday night.
A motorcycle, El-Ashkar said, was traveling south on the ramp just before a curve that directed traffic north when it exited the road. The driver was ejected from the motorcycle.
He was brought to a hospital where he later died, El-Ashkar said.
The crash is Kansas City’s 73rd traffic fatality this year, police said. There had been 53 by this time last year.
This story was originally published September 5, 2020 at 9:19 AM.
