Motorcyclist killed after vehicle detaches from tow truck in Philadelphia's Frankford section, police say

A motorcyclist was killed Saturday afternoon in Philadelphia's Frankford neighborhood after a vehicle detached from a tow truck and struck him, police said.

Inspector D F Pace said the crash happened around 4:15 p.m. on the 4000 block of Frankford Avenue. After reviewing surveillance video police said a 2016 silver Ford F-250 tow truck was traveling south and hauling a silver Dodge Magnum when it detached from the truck's hook and began rolling backwards down the street with no one behind the wheel. The vehicle crossed into the northbound lanes and crashed into a man on a motorcycle, and the tow truck drove away from the scene, police said.

The motorcyclist, identified on Sunday by police as 39-year-old Jason Harvey of Southampton, Pennsylvania, was rushed to Temple University Hospital, where he was pronounced dead, Pace said.

Police said the tow truck was found around 7 p.m. Saturday in the parking lot of an apartment building on the 1000 block of East Lycoming Street in the city's Juniata Park neighborhood.

Investigators are working to identify and locate the tow truck driver and have contacted the company the driver works for.