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Police investigate deadly motorcycle wreck on Flowing Wells Road

Posted at 12:23 PM, Dec 04, 2019
and last updated 2019-12-05 21:50:20-05

TUCSON, Ariz. - Tucson police investigated a serious injury motorcycle wreck turned deadly Wednesday near Flowing Wells and Kleindale.

At around 5 p.m. Wednesday, police said the man injured in the crash had died.

They identify him as 20-year-old Victor A. Navarro Ruiz.

Witnesses on the scene told police a 1998 Dodge Caravan was stopped while exiting a trailer court. They told police Navarro was riding along Flowing Wells when he ran into the passenger side of the SUV.

He was taken to the hospital where he later died.

Police say impairment was not an issue in this incident, and the driver of the SUV stayed on scene and cooperated with the investigation.