Head-on crash fatal to motorcyclist

A head-on crash around one o’clock yesterday afternoon near Seneca left a motorcyclist dead and a second driver charged by the highway patrol.  The coroner said the crash reported on 59 two miles south of the city limit was fatal to 32-year old motorcyclist and Westminster resident William Andrew Cheek.  According to state trooper Joe Hovis, pickup truck driven by Lane Ables of Seneca crossed the centerline and struck the motorcycle.  Ables, 85 years old, was charged with too fast for conditions.