Police name motorcyclist killed in collision last week

The Isle of Man Constabulary has now named the motorcyclist who died in a collision last week. 

59 year old Paul George Taylor from Port Erin was fatally injured on the Kirk Michal to Peel Coast Road on Thursday April 20.

Mr Taylor was pronounced dead at the scene, while the driver of the other vehicle involved was taken to Noble’s with non-life threatening injuries and has since been released. 

Inspector Neil Craig from the Constabulary’s Road Policing Unit says: "Mr Taylor had been riding his motorbike in a direction from Kirk Michael towards Peel when he collided with another vehicle travelling in the opposite direction around 1pm that afternoon. 
Officers from the police's Collision Investigation Unit immediately attended the scene, together with other emergency services, which resulted in the section of road between the Switchback and Reayrt Aalin being closed for around seven and a half hours, to allow for the police investigation to be fully undertaken.
I would like to renew my appeal for anyone who may have been in the area around the time of the collision, and who we may not yet have spoken to, to please make contact with the Roads Policing Unit at Police Headquarters on 631212.”