A Tucson Motorcyclist Is Dead After Glenn St. Collision

TUCSON, AZ — Sunday around 2:30 p.m., Tucson police were called to a serious-injury motorcycle collision at the intersection of N. Treat Avenue and E. Glenn Street. Tucson Fire medics responded to the call and administered aid to the motorcyclist, William S. Woodin, 47. They transported Woodin, who sustained life-threatening injuries, to Banner University Medical Center. Not long after he arrived at the hospital, Wooden died.

Meanwhile, Tucson traffic detectives arrived at Glenn and Treat to investigate what led to the crash. Officers’ and detectives’ interviews indicated that a 2003 Toyota Echo was headed south on Treat Avenue toward the Glenn Street intersection. The Toyota’s driver stopped at the intersection’s stop sign, then proceeded southbound across Glenn Street. At the same time, Woodin was riding his 2008 Suzuki XRI motorcycle on Glenn Street, headed west into the Treat Avenue intersection. The vehicles hit each other in the intersection, and Woodin wasn’t wearing a helmet.

Woodin’s path on Glenn Street doesn’t have a stop sign at the Treat Avenue intersection. However, witnesses told police that Woodin “was seen riding in a reckless manner prior to the collision,” a police report said.

The Toyota’s driver stayed at the accident scene and answered investigators’ questions, and police determined that the motorist wasn’t impaired. Roadway evidence and interviews indicated that speed appears to be a factor in the crash. Police continue to investigate, and no citations or charges were issued.

Woodin’s death is the city of Tucson’s first traffic fatality this year.