Md. man dies in Howard County motorcycle crash

Published October 2, 2011 4:00am ET



Howard County police say a 30-year-old Columbia man died after driving his speeding motorcycle into a parked tractor-trailer on Saturday.

Juan Carlos Calderon Mejia crashed his 2001 Kawasaki Ninja motorcycle on Brookdale Drive in Elkridge. He  was taken to a nearby hospital in Baltimore where he died.

Police say Mejia was not wearing a helmet and did not have a motorcycle license.