The Sonoma County coroner's office has identified a Santa Rosa man who died in a motorcycle crash south of Healdsburg on Saturday evening as 68-year-old Timothy Freed Neely.
California Highway Patrol officials said Neely crashed his motorcycle into a creek in the 4600 block of Westside Road.
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The CHP responded at 5:58 p.m. to a report that a motorcyclist's head was submerged in a creek.
Emergency crews pronounced Neely dead at 6:10 p.m.
Neely was apparently speeding west on Westside Road and failed to negotiate a curve.
The motorcycle left the southern edge of the road and into the creek and Neely was ejected and plunged facedown into the water, according to the CHP.
--Bay City News
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