Fatal motorcycle crash

The Tucson Police Department investigates the scene of a fatal motorcycle crash that also involve two cars at the eastern entrance to Park Place Mall on E. Park Place Drive on February 24, 2020.

Officials released the name of a motorcyclist who died in a crash on Tucson’s east side Monday.

Nicholas Vincent Lipari, 29, died after his motorcycle collided with a Honda Civic on South Wilmot Road just south of East Broadway, the Tucson Police Department said in a news release.

Around 11 a.m., Lipari was traveling south on Wilmot when a 2012 Honda Civic heading north took a left turn into Park Place Drive and Lipari collided with the passenger side of the Civic, police said.

The driver of the Civic stopped and cooperated with the investigation. A DUI officer determined the driver was not impaired, police said.

Witnesses told police Lipari was weaving through traffic at a high rate of speed.

The investigation is ongoing and no citations have been issued, police said.


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