Man who died in motorcycle-bicycle crash identified

Published Monday, June 1, 2009 | 7:40 a.m.

Updated Monday, June 1, 2009 | 3:14 p.m.

Fatal accident

A man who died after a collision between a bicycle and a motorcycle about 9:30 p.m. Sunday has been identified as 46-year-old Charles O. Morgan.

The Clark County Coroner's Office said Morgan's death was accidental and he died of several blunt force injuries after a collision with a motorcycle.

Two other people were injured in the crash in the eastern Las Vegas Valley, Metro Police said.

A 2007 Harley-Davidson motorcycle traveling north on Hollywood Boulevard toward Vegas Valley Drive struck a man pushing a green Magna 12-speed bicycle who was crossing Hollywood Boulevard in front of the motorcycle, police said.

The motorcycle driver, 46-year-old Michael Hartley of Las Vegas, and his passenger, 42-year-old Kathy Kertesz, along with Morgan slid northwest on the pavement, police said.

Morgan was pronounced dead at Sunrise Hospital and Medical Center Trauma Unit, police said.

Hartley is in critical condition and Kertesz suffered moderate injuries, police said.

This is the 36th fatal traffic collision in Metro Police jurisdiction this year. The crash remains under investigation, police said.

Discussion: 2 comments so far…

By rattlefish

6/1/09 at 2:28 p.m.

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Why are 36 collision deaths, or highway accidents in general which are in the hundreds each year, not a bigger story than construction accidents?

Isn't crossing a street or riding a bicycle subject to some kind of safety expectation?
By rattlefish

6/1/09 at 9:58 p.m.

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I checked and the news is good, only 60 fatalities in Clark county this year compared to 84 last year. There were 324 traffic deaths in Clark county in all of 2008. These figures are from the Nevada Office of traffic safety, NDOT.

Why don't we hear more about this?