Haverhill rider down sat night

[Duffy]

Firstly, I know there are a few Haverhill riders on this forum and I hope this isn't one of them or anyone that anyone may know. Whole thing is sad and unnecessary, didn't need to get to this point. Is it me or does there seem to be large # of crashes/deaths this year from riding? Friend told me about this today. Guess the young lady passenger on the bike was his daughters boyfriends sister. Her family had to go to the hospital today to decide to take her off life support or whatever, guess she has sever head trauma.
http://www.eagletribune.com/permalin...229004130.html

[gixxersixxer]

Firstly, I know there are a few Haverhill riders on this forum and I hope this isn't one of them or anyone that anyone may know. Whole thing is sad and unnecessary, didn't need to get to this point. Is it me or does there seem to be large # of crashes/deaths this year from riding? Friend told me about this today. Guess the young lady passenger on the bike was his daughters boyfriends sister. Her family had to go to the hospital today to decide to take her off life support or whatever, guess she has sever head trauma.
http://www.eagletribune.com/permalin...229004130.html

was this the accident I had heard about where this DUMBASS was running from the cops this past Saturday night with the female passenger on back and was going about 90 and t-boned a car? I can't read the article since I'm at work...can you post it?

[Stiggy]

Yes it is. The guy also had a pocket full of cocaine. My mom called me sat. morning to make sure it wasn't me.

RIP rider, sadly not everyone gets to live with the choices they make.

[seth399]

Yes it is. The guy also had a pocket full of cocaine. My mom called me sat. morning to make sure it wasn't me.

RIP rider, sadly not everyone gets to live with the choices they make.

you should quit the nose candy...mom will worry about you less

[scubasteveRR]

It really sucks that he passed away but come on now, why run from the cops especially in the middle of a city on 125. People are pulling in and out of that road like crazy, I can’t believe he made I that far.

[Duffy]

He started running from cops in Kingston. When at at Rt125 it kinda forks at some big gas station and he had a stop sign he blew thru, and went straight onto the wrong side of road onto RT125 and a minivan was pulling into the gas station and he hit it. Well, this is the story I got from friend who got it from passengers mother who got from police. So sad the the innocent passenger had to pay her life for it too. He made a dumb choice. Prolly was running cuz of the coke he had on him then.... BTW, I thought that coke story was from Lynn. Or was that a completely different tragedy?
Crash victim loved motorcycles
By Margo Sullivan
margosullivan@eagletribune.com

PLAISTOW — Robert Litchfield was remembered yesterday as a generous, fun-loving young man who loved to ride motorcycles.

The 22-year-old Haverhill man was killed Saturday night when his motorcycle crashed on Route 125 after officers tried to stop him in Kingston, police said.

His passenger, Alicia Gavin, 20, of Derry, was listed in critical condition last night at Massachusetts General Hospital.

Police were tight-lipped yesterday about the crash. Although no details were available on why Litchfield was being pursued, Plaistow police have said the motorcycle was traveling at a high rate of speed when it collided with a minivan in front of Petro King gas station shortly before 8 p.m.

The unidentified minivan driver was treated at Parkland Medical Center and released.

Litchfield's aunt, Robin Litchfield of Hinsdale, Mass., said last night her nephew should not have been driving fast and that his death has devastated their family.

Litchfield is the second nephew her family has lost in four months, she said. Elmer Huntoon, also, 22, drowned April 25.

"Both of these young men are hugely missed," she said.

Litchfield was son of Elmer Litchfield of Hinsdale, Mass., and Valerie Constantine of Dalton, Mass. He leaves six brothers and a sister. He grew up in Hinsdale, attended Wahconah Regional High School, and later moved to Haverhill.

Litchfield worked for PST Towing & Auto in Haverhill and Methuen, according to a friend, Frank Constabile of Plaistow. His job involved repossessing cars.

"I couldn't believe it was him that got killed," Constabile said last night, adding that the tragic news didn't hit home until he saw the smashed motorcycle. "I had to go see the bike."

Constabile said Litchfield used to help him at his business, C & C Towing, but never worked for him.

"I hung around with Robert," he said. "I loved him as a friend. It's a shame this all had to happen."

Litchfield's aunt said the family hates motorcycles and that his parents objected to him riding.

"I am not truly sure who my heart aches for more," his aunt wrote in an e-mail message. "My nephew or Alicia."

Gavin needed a ride home and text-messaged Litchfield, asking him to pick her up at work, his aunt said.

Litchfield was taken to Lawrence General Hospital and pronounced dead. Gavin was originally taken to Lawrence General and then transferred to Massachusetts General Hospital.

Plaistow Patrolman Brett Morgan said last night the accident is still under investigation. He refused to provide the victims' names or other specifics.

Shortly after the crash, Plaistow police said their preliminary evidence showed that after missing the curve at the intersections of Plaistow and Timberlane roads, Litchfield's motorcycle turned into the wrong lane.

The motorcycle then hit the minivan, throwing Litchfield and Gavin off the bike.

An eyewitness, Marion Bergman of Haverhill, said the motorcycle flashed past her car so quickly she could "hardly see them."

After hitting the minivan, the motorcycle continued into the woods in a cloud of dust. When she saw the dust and the trees, Bergman said to her companion, "Somebody just died."

Bergman said three police cruisers then converged on the crash scene.

Danielle Hurley, an employee at Petro King, said Litchfield and Gavin landed near a row of three trees in a grassy depression outside the store. Litchfield may have been thrown into the first tree, while Gavin "flew through" the branches of the two other trees, she said.