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05-02-2005, 12:28 PM
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Posted on Sat, Apr. 30, 2005
Man dies trying to outrun officers
By Deanna Boyd
Star-Telegram Staff Writer
FORT WORTH - A 24-year-old college student was killed early Friday when police say he wrecked his motorcycle while trying to outrun officers.
Trung Tran of Grand Prairie was pronounced dead at the scene about 1:25 a.m.
Sgt. Don Hanlon said two officers in a patrol car tried to make a traffic stop after they spotted Tran driving recklessly and speeding north on U.S. 287.
"The motorcycle rider turned back, looked at the officers in their marked unit with their lights on and began to accelerate," Hanlon said.
Hanlon said Tran was trying to exit to northbound Interstate 35W when he failed to negotiate the exit ramp and went airborne across I-35W, striking the highway's center barrier.
He was thrown from the motorcycle and struck by a southbound tractor-trailer, Hanlon said.
Witnesses reported that he was going more than 100 mph right before the accident, Hanlon said.
The truck driver was not injured in the wreck and did not know what had struck his truck's left front bumper until he pulled over and saw Tran's body, Hanlon said.
He said that after Tran was thrown from the bike, the motorcycle continued traveling northbound about 1,000 feet before crashing. He said the officers did not witness the wreck but pulled over and found the man dead.
"They came right up after the fact, and the motorcycle was still going down the freeway without a rider on it," Hanlon said.
Hanlon said the investigation is continuing.
"We're still trying to determine why he was running," Hanlon said. "It may have been just as simple as he didn't want to get tickets."
Tran's half brother, Tom Vo, said Tran, a former student at South Grand Prairie High School, studied business management at the University of Texas at Arlington.
Posted on Sat, Apr. 30, 2005
Man dies trying to outrun officers
By Deanna Boyd
Star-Telegram Staff Writer
FORT WORTH - A 24-year-old college student was killed early Friday when police say he wrecked his motorcycle while trying to outrun officers.
Trung Tran of Grand Prairie was pronounced dead at the scene about 1:25 a.m.
Sgt. Don Hanlon said two officers in a patrol car tried to make a traffic stop after they spotted Tran driving recklessly and speeding north on U.S. 287.
"The motorcycle rider turned back, looked at the officers in their marked unit with their lights on and began to accelerate," Hanlon said.
Hanlon said Tran was trying to exit to northbound Interstate 35W when he failed to negotiate the exit ramp and went airborne across I-35W, striking the highway's center barrier.
He was thrown from the motorcycle and struck by a southbound tractor-trailer, Hanlon said.
Witnesses reported that he was going more than 100 mph right before the accident, Hanlon said.
The truck driver was not injured in the wreck and did not know what had struck his truck's left front bumper until he pulled over and saw Tran's body, Hanlon said.
He said that after Tran was thrown from the bike, the motorcycle continued traveling northbound about 1,000 feet before crashing. He said the officers did not witness the wreck but pulled over and found the man dead.
"They came right up after the fact, and the motorcycle was still going down the freeway without a rider on it," Hanlon said.
Hanlon said the investigation is continuing.
"We're still trying to determine why he was running," Hanlon said. "It may have been just as simple as he didn't want to get tickets."
Tran's half brother, Tom Vo, said Tran, a former student at South Grand Prairie High School, studied business management at the University of Texas at Arlington.