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UPDATE: Lanes Reopen After Fatal Motorcycle Crash Blocked Eastbound I-580

Motorcyclist killed on I-580 in Pleasanton.

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Update at 3:45 p.m.: 

A motorcyclist was killed in a crash on eastbound Interstate

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Highway 580 in Pleasanton this afternoon, causing the closure of multiple lanes of the highway for more than two hours, according to the California
Highway Patrol.

The crash was reported at 12:54 p.m. near the Hacienda Drive on-ramp to eastbound Highway 580, CHP Officer James Evans said.

The motorcyclist apparently became trapped under a truck following the collision, Evans said.

The Alameda County coroner was called to the scene of the crash shortly after 1:30 p.m., according to the CHP.

The collision prompted the closure of the three left eastbound lanes of the highway. All lanes reopened at about 3 p.m., according to the CHP.

Original story--

           A motorcyclist has been killed in a crash that is blocking

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multiple lanes of eastbound Interstate Highway 580 in Pleasanton Friday

afternoon, according to the California Highway Patrol.

 The crash was reported at 12:54 p.m. near the Hacienda Drive

on-ramp, CHP Officer James Evans said.

           The motorcyclist apparently became trapped underneath another

vehicle following the collision, Evans said.

           The Alameda County coroner was called to the scene of the crash

shortly after 1:30 p.m., according to the CHP.

           The collision has prompted the closure of the three left eastbound

lanes of the highway, according to the CHP.

           Evans said there was no estimate for when the lanes would be

reopened.


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