Girlfriend of motorcyclist killed in crash 'knew instantly' he was dead after arriving at scene

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The girlfriend of a champion motorcyclist who was tragically killed in a crash said she 'knew instantly' he had died after she was unable to reach him on the phone.Ryan Leigh Hastings, known as Titch, was riding his beloved green Kawasaki Ninja motorbike called ‘Zoe’ when tragedy struck on August 21 at around 4.35pm.

Distraught Chloe Doughty hadn't heard from her boyfriend for more than five hours so she retraced a previous trip they had gone on to Aberystwyth, Wales and discovered a road was closed.Speaking to Birmingham Live about the day of the accident, the 22-year-old said: "When I finished work I couldn’t get hold of Ryan, which was unusual. “After five and a half hours of his friends not hearing from him either I went round his house and the lights were off and the dog was barking.

I decided to drive around and when I got to the bypass and saw it closed off by police I knew instantly it was to do with him.“I went through the cordon and the police stopped me but I said: ‘I won’t go until I know if he’s safe.’ After I confirmed his details and date of birth they told me he’d died.

He was my whole life and then he was gone.“I fell in love with him on his bike on that road where he died. He’d take me out on the back of the bike and on that special day we’d ended up in Aberystwyth and come back there after midnight.