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TRAGIC CHRISTMAS EVE
Motorcycle rider killed in crash
4th fatality of vehicular, motorcycle crash this year
A 21-year-old man was killed when he lost control of a black motorcycle he was riding and was thrown against a traffic sign pole along Isa Drive in San Vicente Wednesday afternoon, police said yesterday.
Christopher Del Rosario suffered head injury, internal bleeding due to a ruptured spleen, and numerous contusions and lacerations.
Department of Public Safety police spokesman Travis Hurst said Dr. Stephen Katz of the Commonwealth Health Center pronounced Del Rosario dead Wednesday at 9:19pm as a result of head injury.
Del Rosario is the fourth fatality of a vehicular and motorcycle crash on Saipan and in the CNMI this year.
Hurst said DPS Central Dispatch sent units to a motorcycle crash incident on Isa Drive Wednesday at 5:19pm. Upon arriving, police officers saw the victim lying next to a traffic sign pole and a black motorcycle north from him.
The victim, who was later identified as Del Rosario, was taken to CHC, where he later succumbed to his injuries.
Hurst said that, according to the investigation conducted by traffic officers, it was determined that Del Rosario lost control of the motorcycle and was thrown from the vehicle.
“This crash is currently under investigation,” Hurst said.
Last July 6, Arthur Sibetang, 61, was killed when a pickup truck he was driving reportedly ran off the roadway and slammed into a concrete barrier for a power pole along Flame Tree Road in Dandan. Investigators determined that alcohol was a factor to the crash.
Last June 22, a woman and her unborn five-month-old baby were killed while three other occupants of a Toyota Sienna van were injured when the van they were riding crashed into a power pole along As Perdido Road. Investigators determined that speed was the cause of the crash and the driver was arrested and charged.
