Authorities in Maryland are looking into a fatal motorcycle collision that took the life of a teenage girl from Wilmington on Sunday afternoon.
The victim, a 17-year-old Delaware resident, was riding as a passenger on a Kawasaki motorcycle when the deadly accident occurred. Emergency responders rushed both the passenger and the 19-year-old male operator to a nearby medical facility, where the young woman was declared dead. The rider of the second motorcycle, a Yamaha, escaped without injury.
The collision happened just past 1 p.m. Sunday on Maryland Route 213 near Leeds Road, prompting a response from Maryland State Police troopers stationed at the North East Barrack. Initial findings suggest both motorcycles were heading southbound when the Kawasaki rider tried to overtake the Yamaha but collided with its left side for undetermined reasons…