CEDAR PARK, TX. (THECOUNT) — Dane Benjamin Hone, of Leander, TX, has been identified as the victim in a fatal motorcycle crash near Leander on Saturday.
Hone, 45, was killed Saturday night while operating a motorcycle traveling on the U.S. 183A toll road in Leander.
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According to reports, Hone was riding on a motorcycle in the 6400 block of the 183A toll road in Leander around 6:30 p.m. when the bike came into contact with a pickup truck.
Officials arrived on scene and observed a pickup truck in the median and a motorcycle crashed in the road.
Hone was transported to an area hospital where he was later pronounced dead of multiple blunt force trauma injuries Sunday morning.
Cedar Park police said, based on their investigation, it appears the truck crashed into the median first, sending pieces of debris into the road. The motorcycle driver hit the debris moments later and crashed, reports KVUE.
This cause of the crash remains under investigation.
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Friends and family member took to Facebook to remember Hone:
Geo quick facts: Leander is a city in Williamson and Travis counties in the U.S. state of Texas. The population was 26,521 at the 2010 census, and 56,111 at the 2018 census estimate. A suburb just north of Austin, and part of the Greater Austin metropolitan area, it is the fourth-fastest-growing city in the state of Texas – Wikipedia.