ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — One person is dead after police said a car rear-ended a motorcycle Wednesday morning in northeast Albuquerque.

According to the Albuquerque Police Department, officers responded to reports of a crash shortly after 6 a.m. in the area of Candelaria Road and San Mateo Boulevard.

Investigators found a car was driving north on San Mateo, passing the intersection with Candelaria, when a Vespa motorcycle was trying to turn right onto northbound San Mateo from a nearby gas station parking lot. As the motorcycle turned right, the car rear-ended the motorcycle.

The motorcyclist died at the scene.

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