Darren Dahleiden waited at the stop sign on County Road 485 in the dark early hours of Sunday, October 11. The 24-year-old from Plano sat in his BMW and looked toward State Highway 205. He pulled out anyway.
Darryl Cloyd came north on his 2019 Harley-Davidson at that same moment. The 61-year-old Lavon man rode through the Collin County intersection around 1:20 a.m. The BMW clipped the rear driver’s side of the bike hard.
The force threw the motorcycle sideways. Cloyd hit the ground and never recovered. Ambulances carried him to a local hospital where staff declared him dead.
Dahleiden climbed out of the damaged BMW with only minor hurts. He went to the hospital too but left in better shape than the man he struck.
Troopers from the Texas Department of Public Safety sealed off the crossing of Highway 205 and Road 485. They measured the damage and talked to the surviving driver. Their first finding called it a clear failure to yield the right of way.
The intersection sits in a calm stretch outside Lavon, northeast of Dallas. Drivers treat it like any other quiet country crossroads until the moment someone misses the stop.
No extra details have surfaced about speed or distractions. The investigation stays open while the wreckage gets cleared and the reports get finished.
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