Stunting on Dallas highway leads to motorcycle fatality
Another motorcycle accident was caught on camera with a deadlier ending than footage seen in other incidents.
Less than a week after a police dashboard camera recorded footage of a truck hitting a college football star at an intersection in Iowa City, authorities from Dallas, Texas are releasing video showing the moments that led to a fatal motorcycle crash.
Recorded by cameras located along the city’s North Texas Tollway, video footage shows a group of riders on sportbikes doing stunts along the three lane highway. Dallas police tried to stop them and although the officers switched on their lights, they did not reportedly give pursuit.
As the riders sped away, weaving through traffic 22-year-old Preston Cass slammed into the rear of a pickup truck. Cass is seen in footage being thrown ahead of the truck along with his motorcycle. While the driver of the truck slowed down and pulled over, the other riders rode off.
Cass died a short time later at the hospital.
While charges are not expected against the driver of the truck, police are saying the other riders could be cited.
“We really want to get the message out to the folks that choose to do this kind of thing,” Trooper Lonny Haschel told the local Fox news station, “Go to some place other than a public roadway.”






