Anchorage girl, 16, killed in Seward Highway motorcycle crash

Updated: September 11, 2017 Published: September 10, 2017

A motorcycle lies on the side of the Seward Highway near the scene of a fatal motorcycle crash near Girdwood on Saturday, Sept. 9, 2017. (Bob Hallinen / Alaska Dispatch News)

A 16-year-old Anchorage girl was killed in a Seward Highway motorcycle crash just north of Girdwood Saturday.

Emily Tredway was riding a 2013 Honda motorcycle southbound when she "lost control and struck the guardrail" near milepost 91, about a mile north of the turnoff to Girdwood, Alaska State Troopers said Saturday. The first report of the crash came in at 2:56 p.m., troopers said.

The Anchorage Police Department was called to the scene. Tredway was taken to an Anchorage hospital, where she was pronounced dead.

Tredway was a student at South Anchorage High School, according to district spokeswoman Catherine Esary.

Anchorage police are investigating the crash.

Michelle Theriault Boots

Michelle Theriault Boots is a longtime reporter for the Anchorage Daily News. She focuses on in-depth stories about the intersection of public policy and Alaskans' lives. Before joining the ADN in 2012, she worked at daily newspapers up and down the West Coast and earned a master's degree from the University of Oregon.