Man dies due to injuries sustained in Mooresville motorcycle crash
The crash happened Tuesday afternoon on Plaza Drive.
MOORESVILLE, N.C. (WBTV) - A man has died after the motorcycle he was driving collided with a semi-truck in Iredell County earlier this week.
According to the Mooresville Police Department, the crash happened on Plaza Drive near Lansing Circle on Tuesday around 3:30 p.m.
Police said the man on the motorcycle was traveling east on Plaza Drive at a high rate of speed when he hit the rear of the truck, which was stopped, waiting to turn into a parking lot.
Mooresville Fire-Rescue and Iredell County EMS provided medical aid to the man, who airlifted to CMC Main in Charlotte with life-threatening injuries.
Officials said the man, identified as 22-year-old Ruben Walker of Salisbury, died at the hospital on Saturday.
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