
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: WEDNESDAY, April 20, 1994                   TAG: 9404200111
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: C-3   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: By DIANE STRUZZI STAFF WRITER
DATELINE:                                 LENGTH: Short

MOTORCYCLIST KILLED IN WRECK WITH CAR

A 20-year-old Reston man was killed Tuesday morning in Montgomery County Tuesday when he crashed his motorcycle into a car, injuring the other driver, according to state police.

Raymond Joel Bywater Jr. was pronounced dead at the accident scene after he was thrown about 75, said Trooper Randy Tompkins.

About 8:45 a.m., Bywater was riding his motorcycle northbound on Prices Ford Road near Merrimack Road. Tompkins said he saw Bywater cross the center line to pass other northbound vehicles. Tompkins said Bywater sped away when he tried to stop him.

As Bywater crested a hill, he crossed into the opposing lane of traffic, hitting a car driven by Catina B. Slusser, 22, of Blacksburg, police said. Slusser was flown to Roanoke Memorial Hospital, where she was in satisfactory condition late Tuesday in the neuro-trauma, progressive-care unit, according to a nursing supervisor at the hospital.

Tompkins said that the motorcycle Bywater was driving had been reported stolen from North Carolina and that Bywater was driving with a suspended license.

Keywords:
FATALITY

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