A fifth biker's death has been attributed to a crash associated with Bike Week. Henry Gordon Johnson, 67, of Deltona, died Tuesday at Orlando Regional Medical Center, from injuries suffered two days earlier when he lost control of his 2009 Harley-Davidson, the Florida Highway Patrol reported.
Johnson was riding on Enterprise Osteen Road near Ledford Roadman at 2:55 p.m. Sunday, the final day of Bike Week, when he lost control of his bike and overturned off the roadway, the FHP said. He was not wearing a helmet.
The first fatality was that of an Ohio woman, Linda Lockwood, 46, killed Sunday when she was thrown from the back of a Harley that collided with another bike after both touched while heading in the same direction on South Atlantic Avenue in New Smyrna Beach.
The second death occurred early Tuesday in DeLeon Springs, when just after midnight, Paul Allen Jarrett, 53, of West Virginia, and a friend, both retired police officers, were riding their Harleys north on US-17 when Jarrett lost control of his bike, crashed into a fence and separated from the bike.
A thid biker, identified as Tommy Keith, 38, of Jonesboro, Ga., was killed instantly at 12:45 a.m. Saturday when he smashed his Suzuki into the center concrete divider and then a light pole on the International Speedway Boulevard Bridge while westbound while riding at an "excessive speed," Daytona Beach police said.
Later Saturday, a 32-year-old Tampa-area biker was killed when he lost control of his 2000 Suzuki motorcycle on Interstate 4, smacked a guardrail and then overturned, the FHP said. Edgar Javier Gonzalez of Riverview, who was wearing a helmet, was pronounced dead on the scene of the 5:50 p.m. accident on the eastbound side near Lake Helen.