Overview
- Peoria officers responded around 7 a.m. to Grand Avenue and Peoria Avenue, where a motorcycle and at least one other vehicle collided.
- The rider, identified by police as 70-year-old Michael Anthony Bianco, was taken to a hospital in critical condition and later died.
- Grand Avenue was shut down in both directions between 83rd and 84th avenues as investigators processed the scene.
- Around 8:15 p.m., Glendale and Phoenix fire crews responded to 51st Avenue and Thunderbird Road after a crash involving a motorcycle and a car.
- A man and a woman from the motorcycle were hospitalized in critical condition, and another woman and a child were evaluated but not admitted.