Motorcycles collide, killing 2

Two men riding Harley Davidson motorcycles were killed Sunday afternoon after a head-on collision on Route 250 near Route 629 in West Augusta, not far from the Highland County-Augusta County line.

Virginia State Police report Michael Keith Neve, 51, of Midlothian, was traveling east when his motorcycle crossed the center line around a curve and hit a bike driven by Delbert “Buzzy” Walton Redman, Jr., 53, of Troy.

Neve died at the scene at about 12:30 p.m. and Redman died shortly before he was to be loaded into a helicopter bound for the University of Virginia Medical Center, state police Sgt. Michael Rossetti said.

Speed was not a factor in the crash, but the role of alcohol or drugs has not been determined, Rossetti said. Investigators spent much of the afternoon piecing together the scene that spanned both sides of the two-lane road.

Last month, in the same mile-long stretch, five people were injured, including two seriously, when a westbound Toyota Tacoma collided into three oncoming motorcycles. All involved survived.

The driver of the Tacoma, Sean Stanton, 33, of Monterey, was charged with second-offense DUI in that crash.