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1 dead after motorcycle crash along highway in Lee’s Summit

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Lee’s Summit police are investigating a fatal motorcycle crash that happened on U.S. 50 early Saturday.

In a news release Saturday, police said they were called to the westbound lanes of the highway near the O’Brien Road overpass on a report of a motorcycle in the median around 4 a.m. When officers arrived, they found the vehicle and the rider, who was dead, in the median.

Police said they were working to reconstruct the scene and determine what happened.

The identity of the rider has not yet been released.

Westbound and eastbound U.S. 50 were closed for a few hours while police worked at the scene Saturday morning.

Nathan Pilling
The Kansas City Star
Nathan Pilling is a breaking news reporter for The Kansas City Star. He previously worked in newsrooms in Washington state and Ohio and grew up in eastern Iowa.
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