The sedan and motorcycle came together just before five in the morning. It happened at Lincoln Highway and Simmontown Road. Salisbury Township sat quiet until the noise of the wreck.
Richard Pieper was the one on the bike. He was 62 and called Paradise home. The force of the collision left him in the roadway.
Crews arrived and checked him. He was gone at the scene. They moved him next to the county forensic center.
Doctors there ran the autopsy. Multiple traumatic injuries showed up as the reason he died. The coroner called it accidental.
Eastern Lancaster County has that stretch of road as a main path. U.S. Route 30 cuts through near Gap. Drivers use it day and night.
The crash stopped traffic for a while. Investigators looked over the spot. Details stayed limited to what the coroner’s office shared.
Pieper’s ride ended there on that October 29 morning. Local folks who knew him from Paradise felt the news hit hard.
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