KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A motorcyclist died shortly after midnight Wednesday morning in a single-vehicle crash on southbound U.S. 169 near Briarcliff Parkway.
Steven Cox, 36, was traveling “at a high rate of speed” southbound on the highway when he “failed to negotiate the curve in the roadway” and crashed, according to Kansas City, Missouri, police.
The motorcycle left the road and struck a metal guardrail, throwing Cox from the vehicle. He died at the scene.
There have been 27 motor-vehicle fatalities in KCMO so far this year, down from 35 during the same period last season.
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