This thread is to serve as a reminder of the risk we take everytime we go for a ride, and to remember the locals lost doing what they love.
Keith Tatro
Washington County
August 18, 2007
Speed is likely to blame in a crash that killed a Glens Falls man. Police say 28-year-old Keith Tatro was riding his motorcycle Saturday morning when he hit a dip in the pavement and became airborne. According to the Washington County Sheriff’s Office, the motorcycle traveled about 70 feet in the air before coming down in a ditch and striking a tree off of Route 4 in Kingsbury. Tatro was pronounced dead on the scene.
http://www.cbs6albany.com/news/motorcycle_23716___article.html/likely_blame.html
Christopher Van Vorst
East Greenbush
September 2, 2007
A local Iraq war veteran was killed in a motorcycle crash Friday night on Columbia Turnpike.
Christopher Van Vorst, 28, of Albany, crashed into the passenger’s side of a pickup truck as he attempted to make a left turn onto Greenwood Drive. Van Vorst was thrown from the motorcycle and suffered severe traumatic injuries, said police.
Van Vorst was taken to Albany Medical Center where he was pronounced dead. The driver of the pickup truck was not injured in the crash.
http://www.cbs6albany.com/news/crash_23908___article.html/motorcycle_albany.html
Victor Laduke
Sand Lake
July 17, 2007
State Police in Schodack are investigating a deadly motorcycle accident in the Town of Sand Lake. Investigators say 34-year-old Victor Laduke was killed Monday evening while trying to pass a pick-up truck in a no passing lane on Burden Lake Road. Police say Laduke hit the truck driver’s side door, and was ejected from the bike, before hitting a utility poll. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
http://www.cbs6albany.com/news/police_23337___article.html/accident_truck.html
Richard Weidman
Coeymans
June 14, 2007
A deadly motorcycle crash in Albany County is under investigation. It happened just before 8:00 p.m., Thursday, on Blodgett Hill Road in Coeymans. Police say Richard Weidman, of Feura Bush, lost control of his bike and slammed into a street sign. Weidman was pronounced dead at the scene. Police say no one else was involved in the crash.
http://www.cbs6albany.com/news/motorcycle_23074___article.html/driver_police.html
Ronald Jewett
North Greenbush
May 7, 2007
An early morning motorcycle accident in North Greenbush has cost a man his life.
Police say 36 year old Ronald Jewett of Petersburg lost control making a turn on Route 43 and hit a guardrail around 6:30 Monday morning.
Police say he was thrown from the bike and pronounced dead at the scene.
http://www.cbs6albany.com/news/motorcycle_22722___article.html/say_police.html
Connor LaFrance 14 Years Young
September 24, 2007
Students at Saratoga Springs High School and Maple Avenue Middle School gathered together Monday to remember the life of their friend and classmate Connor LaFrance.
The 14-year-old died in Alabama on September 21st doing what he loved most, his parents said: racing his motorcycle.
“Connor is up there saying ‘I’m the lucky one,’ and it’s true because he is up there riding, riding and riding at a hundred miles an hour, which is all he ever wanted to do,” mother Andrea LaFrance said.
“He had a passion that was unparalleled,” added father Dave LaFrance. “He was addicted to speed. If he was on the ice, he was the fastest kid in hockey. Motorcycle racing, he’s one of the fastest kids in the country.”
The Saratoga Springs school district set up crisis teams on the middle school and high school campuses to assist students in the grieving process. By mid-morning, officials said, over a hundred students had shown up.
Connor’s parents said they weren’t shocked by the number. They said their son had an extraordinary way with people.
“He’d go over to a table and start talking to people, and I’m like, I wonder who that is,”
Andrea said. "Then he stops again and talks to a couple more people and then comes and sits down with me. I’d say, ‘Who are those people?’ ‘Those are just friends of mine from downtown.’
“Here’s a fourteen-year-old just working the room. People say he’s like the mini-mayor, he knows everybody.”
It is for that reason the LaFrance family is expecting a packed house on Thursday when Connor is laid to rest.
Calling hours for Conner will be held at the Presbytarian-New England Congregational Church at 24 Circular Street in Saratoga Springs from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. Wednesday.
http://www.cbs6albany.com/news/lafrance_1251773___article.html/say_connor.html
Hopefully never to be updated, but thats not upto me.
RIP