EAST WENATCHEE — A young East Wenatchee man with a history of eluding police on his motorcycle died early Saturday in a collision near 8th Street Northeast and North Kentucky Avenue.

Daniel Peterson, 23, was pronounced dead at Central Washington Hospital following the collision, reported at 2:15 a.m. Saturday.

Officer Christy Patterson, East Wenatchee police spokeswoman, said Peterson was eastbound on 8th Street on a 2009 Suzuki motorcycle, “at a speed that exceeded the limit.”

He apparently ran a stop sign and collided with a 1998 Mazda pickup, which was heading north on Kentucky, Patterson said.

She declined to release the names of the pickup’s occupants, but said both are from East Wenatchee.

The pickup’s driver was treated for minor injuries at Central Washington Hospital and released, she said. The passenger was uninjured.

State Patrol officials helped with the investigation, Patterson said.

Sgt. Andrew Zimmerman, spokesman for the Chelan County Sheriff’s Office, said Peterson had eluded Chelan County officers several times on his motorcycle prior to Saturday’s fatal collision.

He said they’d arrested Peterson in April for attempting for elude, and at the time impounded the motorcycle.

Peterson pleaded guilty to the eluding charge Aug. 13 and was sentenced to 30 days on a Department of Corrections work crew and $900 in fines and fees.

Christine Pratt: 665-1173

pratt@wenatcheeworld.com

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