3rd Biker Fatality in Kansas City in a Month

0:00It's May 3rd. This is Kansas News Today. Local news powered by AI. A motorcycle has died Saturday evening in Kansas City, Kansas after slamming into a vehicle marking the third biker fatality in the area over the past month. The crash happened around 6.40 p.m. on eastbound parallel parkway near 78th street, where the rider collided head on and was pronounced dead right there at the scene. No one else got hurt in the incident and police have a release to victims name yet. This comes after two other tragedies. On April 12th, a 32-year-old veered off the road in Kansas City, Kansas and hit a utility box, dying. On the spot, then on April 22nd, a 33-year-old tried passing a tractor trailer in Riverside and didn't make it. With motorcycles claiming three lives so close together, folks in the Kansas City area are surely rethinking road safety as investigations continue.