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VIDEO (UPDATE): A semi-trailer truck that kept going after a motorcyclist from Elmwood Park was killed on Route 17 is seen in a brief surveillance video clip released by the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office. The maroon or red semi-trailer truck slowed down to a stop in the right lane of Route 17 South due to traffic ahead around 8:40 p.m. Tuesday, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said.
Motorcyclist Mario Andres Uran Gaviria, 41, couldn t stop in time and hit the bobtail truck from behind in front of Allied Carpet, the prosecutor said.
Gaviria, previously of Montgomery Village, MD, was taken to Hackensack University Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead at 9:35 p.m., Musella said.