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Motorcyclist Killed on Joplin Road

PRINCE WILLIAM COUNTY, Va. — A Dumfries man was killed on Independence Day in a motorcycle crash on Joplin Road that involved two motorcycles.

Police were called to the intersection of Joplin and Mawavi roads just before 1 p.m. Thursday. Two motorcycles were headed east on Joplin Road toward Interstate 95 and Quantico when one of the riders moved to pass a vehicle traveling in front of him, and then collided with an oncoming vehicle traveling on the opposite side of the road, according to Prince William police.

The driver of the motorcycle, 26-year-old Stephen Michael Croft, of Dumfries, was pronounced dead on the scene. The second motorcyclist and the driver of the vehicle involved in the crash suffered minor injuries.