LILBURN — The Gwinnett County Police Department is investigating a Sunday motorcycle crash that left one person dead.
Police say at around 9 p.m., officers were dispatched to a traffic accident on Dickens Road near Pepperwood Trail in unincorporated Lilburn. The caller stated said a motorcycle was involved in the crash near Hopkins Elementary School.
The driver of the motorcycle was 27-year-old Josa Then-Valenzuela.
According to the police department, the preliminary investigation shows Then-Valenzuela was traveling westbound on Dickens Road passing in and out of traffic at a high rate of speed. As he crossed into oncoming traffic, he struck a blue Toyota Rav4 head-on.
The driver of the Rav4 had one additional occupant inside the vehicle. He was turning left off Pepperwood Trail onto Dickens Road when the collision occurred.
Then-Valenzuela was ejected off his motorcycle and died as a result of his injuries.
The occupants of the Rav4 were not injured. Both vehicles were impounded to Gwinnett County Police Department Headquarters for further analysis.
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