Victim's Identity Released That Was Killed in Hopewell Twp. Motorcycle Accident Near Shopping Center

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(Hopewell Twp., Beaver County< Pa.) Beaver County Coroner David Gabauer has released the name of the person who was killed on a motorcycle near the Hopewell Shopping Center on Wednesday night.
The coroner said a 23-year-old Christian Tyler McKenzie died in a crash.

Hopewell Township Police Chief Don Sedlacek reported Friday morning that the motorcyclist Christian McKenzie of Coraopolis was riding his motorcycle along Brodhead Road when he clipped the rear left quarter panel(driver’s side) of a car as the driver left the Kuhn’s Market parking lot at Cherry Way on Wednesday night at 9 PM. McKenzie died of blunt force trauma to the head, and his death was ruled accidental, according to Beaver County Coroner David J. Gabauer.

PA State Police’s reconstruction team was called in to determine the cause of the fatal accident, according to Chief Sedlacek. He said that the findings usually take several months to be finalized.

The Hopewell Police Department requested a state police accident reconstruction team to the scene to investigate.
Gabauer ruled McKenzie’s death as being accidental.