Crime & Safety

Fatal Berkeley Motorcycle Crash Probed

The crash was reported at 12:30 a.m. Sunday on Adeline Street between Alcatraz Avenue and Sanford Street, police said.

BERKELEY, CA — A man was killed in a motorcycle crash early Sunday morning, Berkeley police said.

Police said the victim is a man in his 50s.

The crash was reported at 12:30 a.m. on Adeline Street between Alcatraz Avenue and Sanford Street, police said.

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The motorcyclist was traveling northbound on Martin Luther King approaching Adeline when for unknown reasons he crashed into the center median, a tree and a light pole, police said.

Anyone with information about this case is asked to call the Berkeley Police Department’s Traffic Division at (510) 981-5980.

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