WASHINGTON (DC News Now) — D.C. police said that a motorcyclist died at a hospital after a crash in Southeast on Sunday.
Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) officers responded to the intersection of 51st Street and Southern Avenue around 2:05 p.m. for a crash.
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Police believe that 50-year-old Billy Earl Canty of Southwest D.C. was driving west along Southern Avenue on a motorcycle. A pickup truck was at a stop sign and started to turn onto Southern Avenue but came to a stop partway through the turn.
The motorcycle struck the side of the pickup truck, which left the scene before officers arrived…