NEW ORLEANS — Two men are dead after they crashed their motorized dirt bike into a car near downtown New Orleans.
According to an NOPD report, it happened a little after 10:00 p.m. Tuesday on South Claiborne at the corner of Gravier Street.
New Orleans police say the driver of a Honda Accord was driving on Claiborne and tried to turn on to Gravier, at the same time, the dirt bike tried to pass the Honda and the two collided.
Police say the two men on the bike were ejected and one rider died on the scene the other was taken to the hospital by EMS where they later died. The people in Honda were not injured. The crash remains under investigation.
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