One dead after tractor-trailer, motorcycle collide on Independence

A tractor-trailer and motorcycle collided at Independence and Broadview streets in Cape Girardeau about noon Wednesday. The motorcycle had been traveling west on Independence and struck the tractor-trailer as the truck was turning east on Independence from South Broadview. The driver of the motorcycle , Michael J. Brown, 36, of Cape Girardeau died of injuries he sustained in the crash, according a news release by the Cape Girardeau Police Department on Thursday. A passenger on the motorcycle , identified by poliice only as an adult female from Cape Girardeau, sustained head trauma and a broken pelvis and was taken to a local hospital before being airlifted to a St. Louis hospital.