WALLKILL, NY. (THECOUNT) — Hunter Behnke of Ellenville, New York, has been identified as the victim in a fatal motorcycle crash near Wallkill.

Behnke, 21, was killed in a motorcycle crash Monday evening near Wallkill.

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According to reports, Behnke was operating a Suzuki motorcycle on Bloomingburg Road near Allen Lane, when he came into contact with a dump-body Ford F350 around 5 p.m. Monday.

Behnke was pronounced dead at the scene of blunt force trauma.

The driver of the Ford was uninjured.

The cause of the crash remains under investigation.

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Geo quick facts: Wallkill is a hamlet (and census-designated place), generally identified as coterminous with ZIP code 12589, telephone exchange 895 in the 845 area code and most of the Wallkill Central School District located mostly in the eastern half of the Town of Shawangunk, Ulster County, New York but partly spilling over into adjacent regions of the Orange County towns of Newburgh and Montgomery. The population was 2,288 at the 2010 census – wikipedia.