Motorcyclist dies in Mountain View crash with bus contracted by Google

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A male motorcyclist was killed in a collision with a bus contracted by Google in Mountain View on Wednesday evening, police said.

The incident happened around 5:20 p.m. just north of the Shoreline Boulevard on-ramp to Highway 101 near the Google campus, Mountain View police said. The bus was “contracted with Google to provide transportation to employees,” police said in a statement.

Police found the motorcyclist unresponsive on the road, and he was pronounced dead on the scene. There were no other injuries in the collision.

“We are saddened to learn of this tragic incident. Our thoughts are with all those affected by this tragedy,” Gina Scigliano, a Google spokeswoman, said in a statement to The Chronicle. She did not respond to questions about whether any Google employees were on the bus when it crashed.

The victim was not immediately identified by police. The cause of the crash is being investigated, police said.

Mountain View police said the collision is under investigation. Northbound traffic was being redirected at Pear Street, while southbound traffic was turned around at Space Park Way.

Police said the intersection reopened around 1 a.m. Thursday. No new information about the crash had been released Thursday morning.

Sophie Haigney and Annie Ma are San Francisco Chronicle staff writers. Email: sophie.haigney@sfchronicle.com, ama@sfchronicle.com, Twitter: @SophieHaigney, @anniema15