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Motorcyclist killed in Yorktown Blvd. accident identified as 22-year-old

According to officers, Hayden Brooks was traveling at a high speed and lost control.

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — One man is dead following a single vehicle crash on Yorktown Boulevard Saturday evening.

Hayden Brooks was 22, according to the Nueces County Medical Examiner's Office.

Corpus Christi Police officers were dispatched to the 6600 block of Yorktown at 5 p.m. where, according to Lt. Michael Pena, officers found an adult male motorcyclist dead.

Witnesses told first responders that Brooks was traveling east on Yorktown at a high rate of speed, lost control, and struck a pole.

Police said he was wearing a helmet at the time of the crash.

All lanes on the Westbound side were shut down as crews investigated the scene. According to a social media post from CCPD, at 7:17 p.m. all have reopened. 

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