Bothell man killed in motorcycle collision on SR-523

He was 23 years old.

A Bothell man was killed on the night of May 6 in a collision in Shoreline.

According to Washington State Patrol, at about 6:36 p.m., Jason Charles Yu, a 23-year-old man from Bothell, was traveling eastbound on a motorcycle on State Route 523 in Shoreline, when he struck a Seattle driver. Fifty-two-year-old Eve Angela Hammond, was traveling westbound in State Route 523, making a left turn on Northeast 145th Street and 17th Avenue Northeast.

Yu’s motorcycle struck Hammond’s vehicle on the right side and came to a “rest blocking lanes one and two of the Eastbound lanes,” according to the report. Yu was speeding and weaving in and out of traffic just before the crash.

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Yu was taken to Harbowview Medical Center in Seattle, where he was pronounced dead. Hammond was uninjured. It is unknown if drugs or alcohol were involved.