Motorcyclist killed near Henderson park

A motorcyclist was killed Friday morning after a crash in Henderson.

At 4:40 a.m. a red and white Ducati 996 motorcycle was heading south North Valle Verde Drive approaching the intersection with Lennox Drive, near Warm Springs Road.

A 38-year-old man riding the motorcycle was riding at high speed and lost control in a left bend on the road causing the motorcycle to hit the curb. The rider was thrown from the motorcycle and died at the scene, according to the Henderson Police Department.

Speed and impairment were considered factors in the crash by police.

Valle Verde was expected to be closed in both directions from West Warm Springs Road to Malboro Drive for several hours while officers investigated the crash.

At the scene, a bike laid in the middle of the road near Fox Ridge Park, and a small wall put up by Henderson police blocked another piece of evidence in the southbound lanes 100 yards away.

Jonathan Shippey and his adult son walked to Valle Verde from their house on Malboro around 6:30 a.m. to smoke cigarettes and see why the road was blocked south of their street.

Neither were surprised by the crash evidence they saw.

“People come around the corners real fast,” Shippey said of the winding Valle Verde. “They shrunk the road for landscaping and now there’s no turn lane.”

Shippey said he was rear-ended last month trying to turn left onto his street, because the left turn has to be done from the left lane on Valle Verde, a 35 mph street, just after another curve in the road.

A white van with the Clark County coroner’s office emblem drove to the scene just after 7 a.m. At the same time, an officer started knocking on doors on Malboro asking residents with surveillance cameras if they had footage related to the crash.

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