Police identify man killed in south Wichita motorcycle crash

WICHITA, Kan. (KWCH) - Thursday Update: The Wichita Police Department has identified the man killed in a motorcycle crash Wednesday night as 61-year-old Roger Wilcoxen of Winfield.

Around 6:48 p.m. on Wednesday, officers responded to an injury accident at the intersection of S. Hydraulic and Marion. They arrived to find a motorcycle rider – identified as Wilcoxen – had been ejected from his motorcycle after crashing into a 2005 Hyundai Infiniti, driven by a 26-year-old female.

EMS and Wichita Fire rendered emergency medical aid to Wilcoxen, but he died from his injuries on the scene.

Police said its investigators learned that Wilcoxen was southbound on Hydraulic when he collided with the Infiniti, which was attempting to make a turn from eastbound Marion to northbound Hydraulic. The investigation is ongoing.

Wilcoxen died in Wichita’s 29th fatal collision this year and the 32nd fatality.

Update: The Wichita Police Department confirmed a man in his late 50s died after a vehicle failed to yield at a stop sign and hit his motorcycle in a south Wichita intersection.

In the crash reported a little before 7 p.m. Wednesday at East Marion Road and South Hydraulic (near Pawnee and Hydraulic), WPD Captain Wendell Nicholson said the motorcyclist was traveling south on Hydraulic when the vehicle, traveling east on Marion Road, hit the motorcycle in the intersection. Nicholson described the vehicle as a small SUV. He said its driver wasn’t injured.

One person is dead after a crash in south Wichita involving a car and a motorcycle. A Sedgwick County dispatch supervisor said the crash happened a little before 7 p.m. Wednesday at East Marion Road and South Hydraulic, near Pawnee and Hydraulic.

12 News has a photojournalist at the scene to gather further information.