For Immediate Release

Truck and Motorcycle Crash

Date: 10/1/2023

Location: Colony Drive & N. Clinton Street

Time: 0003 hours

Details:

On Sunday, October 1, 2023, at approximately 0003 hours, officers with the Fort Wayne Police Department were dispatched to N. Clinton St. & Colony Dr. reference a crash involving a involving a pickup truck & motorcycle.

The motorcycle was traveling northbound on N. Clinton St. The pickup was traveling eastbound across Colony Dr. when the collision occurred. Medics transported the driver of the motorcycle to a local hospital with multiple injuries. The injuries to the driver of the motorcycle were determined to be life threatening at the hospital.

Speed does not appear to be a factor in the crash at this time. Visibility of the motorcycle due to the possibility of nonfunctioning headlight is currently being investigated. Alcohol may have also played a role in the crash.

This incident remains under investigation by the City of Fort Wayne Police Department’s Fatal Crash Team.

Officer Adam Hartman
Public Information Officer
Fort Wayne Police Department