Crime & Safety

Police ID Driver in Fatal Motorcycle Crash

The operator of the motorcycle in Monday night's crash on DeKalb Pike crashed into a Jeep driven by a Jenkintown resident.

 

Lower Gwynedd Police have released the identification of the motorcyclist from the .

Accoring to The Reporter, the driver, identified as Charles Gale, 28, of Doylestown, was driving northbound on Route 202 when he collided with a 2005 Jeep Liberty, driven by Leland Vollman, 58 of Jenkintown.

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According to the police, the accident is still under investigation. However, police said that the motorcycle collided with the Jeep while the Jeep was making a left turn out of the Church of the Messiah driveway.

Police said Gale was wearing a helmet, but pronounced dead at the Lansdale Hospital from injured sustained during the crash.

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