WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — The West Palm Beach Police Department and Traffic Homicide Unit investigators are looking into a deadly crash involving a motorcycle and a pedestrian crossing the street near downtown West Palm Beach Saturday night.
Police say the call came in at 8:45 p.m.
A 69-year-old man from Miami Beach was struck by a motorcycle while walking in a southbound lane of Australian Avenue. He later died on the scene.
The motorcyclist, 27-year-old Emiliano Iregui Roldan from West Palm Beach, was taken to St. Mary's Medical Center with critical injuries.
Southbound Australian Avenue was closed from Banyan Boulevard to the Okeechobee Boulevard overpass and re-opened just after 1 a.m. on Sunday.
Drugs and alcohol are not believed to be a factor in the crash.
Police say the investigation is open, and criminal charges are pending.
Roldan remains hospitalized as of Monday afternoon, and his condition has been upgraded to serious.
