FORWARD TWP — An Evans City business owner and father of five died Friday after a motorcycle accident.

Robert Hauserman, 44, of Evans City, was identified by State Police as the motorcycle operator who died after crashing into a Forward Township dump truck at about 10:40 a.m. Friday.

Authorities said Paul Merten, 28, of Evans City, was stopped on Marburger Road performing road maintenance in a Forward Township Municipal truck. The truck was just south of Watters Station Road in the 240 block of Marburger Road when Hauserman's 2001 Harley Davidson motorcycle struck the stopped dump truck.

Hauserman was pronounced dead at about 11:19 a.m. after being transported by ambulance to the emergency room at UPMC Passavant in Cranberry Township. He died of blunt force trauma to the chest and abdomen, according to Butler County Chief Deputy Coroner John Hanovick. He was wearing a helmet.

No one else was injured in the crash.

Marburger Road was closed most of Friday as police conducted an accident reconstruction analysis. An autopsy is not planned, Hanovick said, but a routine toxicology screening will be performed.

The investigation is ongoing, according to a police report.

Hauserman was the owner of Hauserman Concrete in Evans City.

His obituary can be seen in today's edition of the Butler Eagle