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2 die after motorcycle hits car in Tangipahoa Parish, State Police say

A motorcyclist and the driver of a car died in a crash early Friday (May 12) in Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana State Police said. Authorities identified the victims as Michael Dywane Jackson Dyson, 48, of the village of Tangipahoa, and Destiny Alexus Gordon, 20, of Kentwood.

Dyson was driving a Kawasaki motorcycle at a high rate of speed on northbound U.S. 51 around 1 a.m., south of Tangipahoa, State Police said in a news release. Gordon, at the wheel of a Chevrolet Malibu, backed out of a parking space and across both lanes of U.