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Jason Watkins watched a motorcycle rider make a fatal decision Thursday in Shreveport.


He was driving south on East Caddo Street near a Union Pacific railroad crossing about 6:20 p.m. when the cyclist, a man in his 60s, flew past him in the opposite direction trying to beat a train.

The man, whose name hadn’t been released, died probably from a crossing arm hitting him and him subsequently falling to the pavement, said Shreveport police Cpl. Gerald Fletcher, a crash investigator.

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“I seen him fly off his bike and land over by the curb,” Watkins said. “I called my wife. I said, ‘I think I just seen a man killed.’ I said, ‘Maybe it’s one of those movies filming.’”