(Biggs, CA) – The Butte County Sheriff’s office has released the identity of the motorcyclist killed in a Christmas day collision on Biggs East Highway: 41-year-old Joel Steward of Biggs.

CHP investigators say Steward and 34-year-old Toni Degler, in a full-sized pickup, were both traveling east “at a high rate of speed” and as Degler slowed to turn left into a driveway, Steward swerved into the westbound lane, broadsiding the driver’s side of the pickup and was thrown off the cycle.

Degler and his 5 passengers were not injured.