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Posted: Jun 29, 2016 5:07 PMUpdated: Jun 29, 2016 5:07 PM

Motorcycle Fatal Accident

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Adam Hooper

Bartlesville Police responded to a fatality accident on Nowata Road near Harned Street in Bartlesville Tuesday evening.  Public Information Officer Captain Jay Hastings said that police received a report from a Dewey Police officer in reference to a motorcycle travelling southbound into Bartlesville at a high rate of speed.  The estimate speed was over 100 MPH.  A Bartlesville officer later drove up on the accident scene on Nowata Road. 

Hastings also said the accident occurred when the motorcycle was travelling east on Nowata at a high rate of speed, passed a car in the outside lane of Nowata road.  A pickup was westbound on Nowata Road and was in the process of turning left onto Harned.  The motorcycle struck the front end of the pickup and the driver was ejected off the motorcycle.  The police identified the driver as 21-year Michael Reese Welsh of Bartlesville, who was pronounced dead at the scene.  No other drivers were injured in the accident.

The accident is still under investigation.


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