A corrections officer was killed in a motorcycle crash in Philadelphia’s Holmesburg neighborhood on Friday morning, police and the city’s Department of Prisons said.
Police said the accident happened around 6:45 a.m. in the 4300 block of Cottman Avenue.
The man was rushed to Jefferson Torresdale Hospital and pronounced dead at 7:10 a.m.
A spokesperson for the Philadelphia Department of Prisons confirmed the man was a corrections officer. Police have not identified the man pending notification of next of kin.
The cause of the crash remains under investigation by the Philadelphia Police Department’s crash investigation division.
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