WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) — A motorcyclist has died following a crash in southwest Wichita.
The Kansas Highway Patrol says it happened shortly before 11:30 p.m. Friday on Interstate 235 near West Street. Troopers say Jess Chavez, 51, of Wichita, was heading north on the interstate when, for an unknown reason, he left the roadway.
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Chavez’s Harley Davidson entered the median, struck the guardrail, throwing Chavez off the bike and into the guardrail and a fence. Chavez came to rest in the roadway, while his bike continued traveling, crossing the southbound lanes, crashing through a fence, and finally stopping on Bolin Drive, just west of the interstate.
He was pronounced dead at the scene. Troopers say he was not wearing a helmet at the time of the crash…