Longview man dies after motorcycle crash Sunday on I-5 in Thurston County

A 43-year-old man from Longview died Sunday after he crashed his motorcycle into a car on Interstate 5.

Washington State Patrol responded at around 4:45 p.m. Sunday to the wreck on southbound I-5 at milepost 96, just north of Maytown, according to a news release. The Longview man was driving a Harley-Davidson motorcycle and changed lanes, hitting a Honda CR-V occupied by one person.

The motorcyclist died en route to the hospital. He was wearing a helmet, according to the release. The driver of the Honda was uninjured.

The crash left one lane of southbound I-5 closed for more than three hours.

This story was originally published July 18, 2022 at 8:25 AM.

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Ty Vinson covers the City of Olympia and keeps tabs on Tumwater and other communities in Thurston County. He joined The Olympian in 2021. Before that, he earned his bachelor’s degree in journalism at Indiana University. In college, he worked as an intern at the Northwest Indiana Times, the Oregonian and the Arizona Republic as a Pulliam Fellow. Support my work with a digital subscription