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SARASOTA, Fla. (WWSB<\/a>) – Authorities are releasing more details about a weekend crash that left a motorcyclist dead on US-41 near Bayshore Drive.<\/p>\n The crash happened just after 10:30 a.m. Sunday. Florida Highway Patrol troopers said both vehicles were heading south on US-41, with the motorcycle in the left lane and the car in the right lane.<\/p>\n The driver of the car made a left turn from the right lane, crossing into the motorcycle\u2019s path. The two collided and the motorcyclist was killed.<\/p>\n Lanes reopen after fatal motorcycle crash at major intersection<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n The crash shut down lanes for about three hours.<\/p>\n Florida Highway Patrol said crashes like this become more common this time of year because more people are on the roads.<\/p>\n \u201cWe do see an uptick with our crashes, and it\u2019s simply because there are so many more people here visiting, which creates more opportunities for bad things to happen,\u201d a trooper said. \u201cThat\u2019s why it\u2019s incumbent upon us to remember that driving, in fact, is a responsibility. Must be taken seriously.\u201d<\/p>\n Copyright 2026 WWSB. All rights reserved.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n SARASOTA, Fla. (WWSB) – Authorities are releasing more details about a weekend crash that left a motorcyclist dead on US-41 near Bayshore Drive. The crash happened just after 10:30 a.m. Sunday. Florida Highway Patrol troopers said both vehicles were heading south on US-41, with the motorcycle in the left lane and the car in the … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24888,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Motorcyclist-killed-in-Nokomis-crash-on-US-41.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24887"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24889,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24887\/revisions\/24889"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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