Fatal Seminole motorcycle crash under investigation

SEMINOLE, Fla. - A motorcyclist was killed Tuesday night in a crash along Seminole Boulevard. 

According to the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office, 37-year-old Timothy Sterbens was driving a Ducati motorcycle northbound on Seminole Boulevard, just south of Park Boulevard, at a high rate of speed shortly before 8 p.m.

At the same time, investigators say a 56-year-old woman was exiting the shopping plaza on the east side of Seminole Boulevard and 72nd Avenue North in a Mazda 3. 

Deputies say as she began to cross the northbound lanes of Seminole Blvd. from east to west, she collided with Sterbens who crossed the shopping plaza exit. 

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Sterbens was taken to an area hospital where he was pronounced dead.

Investigators say speed appears to be a factor in the crash. 

The crash is under investigation.