A collision involving two motorcycles on westbound State Route 193 near Clark Tunnel Road in the Newcastle area left one person dead Saturday, Nov. 7. A CHP fatality feed log recorded the incident at about 12:44 p.m. and initially said it was not known whether another vehicle was involved.
The highway was blocked in both directions as crews worked at the scene. Caltrans District 3 advised drivers to use another route and expect delays; the CHP fatality log listed closures at Fowler Road for eastbound traffic and Gold Hill for westbound traffic by 1:20 p.m. It recorded the highway reopening at 3:36 p.m.
Two motorcycles were involved, according to a later report by Culver Legal, which said a car may also have been involved. That possibility has not been independently confirmed in the accounts available here.
What is known—and what remains unclear
The accounts cited here do not identify the person who died or establish how many people were involved, whether anyone else was hurt, or how the collision happened. They also do not establish a cause or fault. Those details remain unresolved in the available reporting.
Other fatal crashes on Highway 193
Other reported fatal collisions on Highway 193 provide local context, but they are separate incidents and do not explain Saturday’s crash. The Mountain Democrat reported that a three-vehicle collision on June 18 west of Coon Creek Road near Cool killed a 47-year-old Auburn man riding a 2016 Harley-Davidson.
A different crash near Newcastle involved a car: KTXL/FOX40 reported that two teens were killed in a double-fatal collision on State Route 193 on July 21, 2022. Neither earlier crash establishes a pattern or a connection to the November collision.
