A 78-year-old man riding a motorcycle was killed when his bike slammed into the back of a car on Interstate 495 northbound on Thursday afternoon, according to Massachusetts State Police.
State Police went to an area of the highway in Westford at about 3:25 p.m. on Thursday, where they found the motorcycle driver with life-threatening injuries, Trooper James D. DeAngelis, a spokesman for the agency, wrote in an email. The crash occurred near Exit 83 on the northbound side of the interstate.
The man was riding the motorcycle, a 2018 Harley-Davidson, in the center lane on the highway when, just before the crash, he merged into the left lane, State Police said. When the man changed lanes he hit the back of a 2021 Alfa Romeo SUV driven by a 51-year-old man that was stopped in traffic.
