Ormond Beach motorcycle crash critically injures rider; passenger dies

ORMOND BEACH -- A motorcyclist was clinging to life today and his passenger killed when he struck a guardrail and then a tree while trying to turn onto Fluhart Drive from Riverside Drive, police said.

The passenger, Michael Leveille, 29, of Paltkawas pronounced dead at the scene of the 3:40 a.m. accident, police said.

Steven Row, 25, of Ormond Beach, was transported by EVAC to Halifax Medical Center in Daytona Beach with life threatening injuries.

Neither man was wearing a helmet, police said. The force of the crash split the sport bike in half, police said.