MOTORCYCLE RIDER DIES IN RALEIGH, NC CRASH WITH A 2001 FORD TRUCK. THE TRUCK DRIVER WAS CHARGED WITH MISDEMEANOR DEATH BY MOTOR VEHICLE, DRIVING WITHOUT A LICENSE AND UNSAFE MOVEMENT
February 5, 2015
RALEIGH,
NC — A 32-year-old woman died in a truck-motorcycle crash on Rock Quarry Road
on Wednesday afternoon, and a 38-year-old man was charged with death by motor
vehicle and two traffic offenses.
Pamela
Melody Butler was driving a 2013 Suzuki motorcycle south on Rock Quarry Road
when Belsazar Toledo-Garcia began to turn his northbound 2001 Ford truck across
the southbound lanes to enter a flea market at 1436 Rock Quarry Road, according
to police accident investigators.
The
vehicles collided, and Butler was pronounced dead at the scene, police said.
Toledo-Garcia
was listed as living at 406 W. Garner Road in Garner. Butler’s hometown was not
reported.