Butler Township police have identified the 43-year-old Butler man who died in a Friday evening motorcycle accident on Route 422.

James Johns, 43, was driving a 2005 Honda CBR motorcycle on Route 422 east between routes 356 and 8 at 6:03 p.m. when he collided with the rear of a 2017 Honda CVR driven by Cheryl Mills, 63, of Slippery Rock, police said.

Johns, who was traveling at a high speed, was thrown from the bike and struck the CRV before landing on the pavement, and died as a result of his injuries, police said.

The accident remains under investigation, police added.

Mills and her two passengers were not injured, but her vehicle was disabled and towed from the scene.

That section of Route 422 was closed for more than three hours. State police, the township volunteer fire department, VA Butler Fire Department and Butler Ambulance also responded.

Johns was born in Natrona Heights, formerly lived in West Deer Township and graduated from Deer Lakes High School in 1996.

He worked at United Plate Glass in Butler before he worked as a machinist for True Positions Inc. in Richland Township.

He is survived by his mother, fiancee, two brothers, nieces and nephews and his grandmother.

The accident was the second fatal collision involving a motorcycle Friday.

A Greensburg man, Brian D. Keller, 50, was killed after he lost control of his 2006 Harley-Davidson, traveled into a ditch and then struck a sign on Kittanning Pike in Fairview Township just after 7 p.m.