North Carolina motorcyclist killed in Seville I'd; third Bike Week fatality

PIERSON -- A 61-year-old Concord, N.C. man killed Sunday on Bunnell Road just east of Seville when he crashed his Harley-Davidson into a fence, has been identified as Jack Norman, the Florida Highway Patrol said.

Norman may have been speeding when he lost control of his 2005 Harley on a curve and left the roadway, the FHP said this morning. After striking the fence, Norman, who was not wearing a helmet, was thrown from the bike, which then caught fire. He was pronounced dead at the scene of the 4:35 p.m. accident. Alcohol may have been a factor, according to an initial highway patrol report This was the first motorcycle fatality in Volusia County since the start of Bike Week 2012, which got under way Friday.

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There were two prior motorcycle crashes related to Bike Week. Dannis Bish, 54 and an Orlando firefighter, was killed Saturday morning when his 2002 Harley was struck by a 16-year-old girl driving a 2012 Ford Mustang made an improper turn into his path on Colonial Drive in Orange County. His wife, Jayne, was critically injured in the 9:05 a.m. accident. Neither were wearing helmets.

Just two days before the official start of Bike Week, a 51-year-old Las Vegas woman, 51-year-old Amber Brinton, was killed when her husband Keith Brinton's Harley was struck from behind by a Lincoln Navigator on U.S. 1 in Port Orange, just north of the Dunlawton Bridge. The husband was being treated at Halifax Medical Center for non-life threatening injuries.