A motorcyclist was killed in a fatal Burnett County crash on Friday, Aug. 9.
According to a press release from the Burnett County Sheriff’s Office, dispatch was notified about a crash on State Highway 70 near Fosmo Drive in Lafollette Township just before 12:30 p.m.
Preliminary investigation indicates that a group of motorcycles were traveling eastbound together when one had a tire blow out.
The driver of that motorcycle, identified as 64-year-old Webster man Stephen Stevens, was ejected and pronounced deceased at the scene.
The drivers of two other motorcycles laid their vehicles down to avoid colliding with the first one.
A passenger was transported to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries.
The crash remains under investigation.
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