Teen who survived childhood cancer is killed in motorcycle accident

Collin Leonard, KSL.com

SALEM, Utah (KSL.com) — A young motorcyclist was killed Monday evening successful a collision pinch a car astatine nan intersection of 340 South and Woodland Hills Drive, by Valley View Middle School, Salem constabulary say.

Family members identified nan motorcyclist arsenic 17-year-old Riley Smith. He was taken to Primary Children’s Hospital by aesculapian chopper aft nan accident, according to police.

According to family members, “he underwent a 10-hour room that night, pinch much scheduled nan adjacent day,” but “Riley’s assemblage conscionable could not support up pinch nan extended injuries and he passed away” connected Tuesday night.

“Riley’s parents, Chris and Brandy Smith, on pinch their different son, Hunter, who was Riley’s champion friend, are wholly devastated. The family would for illustration to convey each of nan first responders, and nan full community, for everything they did for Riley successful an effort to prevention his life,” a family personnel wrote.

Smith was a subsister of puerility cancer, nan family said, and had a kidney removed to excise a tumor.

Police opportunity nan mishap is still nether investigation. A GoFundMe account has been group up for nan family to offset aesculapian expenses.