Emergency personnel responded about 2:45 p.m. Sunday to a crash involving a motorcycle and car on Bluff Road at Hanover Road between Columbia and Valmeyer. A St. Louis man died in the crash.

An Illinois State Police crash reconstruction team was requested to investigate the incident, resulting in Bluff Road being closed to traffic in that area. The roadway was reopened to traffic shortly before 6 p.m.

The Monroe County Sheriff’s Department said a 2006 Pontiac G6 driven by Steven A. Albert, 79, of Columbia was traveling west on Hanover Road and for unknown reasons, failed to yield at the intersection with Bluff Road and attempted to turn left onto Bluff Road heading south. This resulted in a collision with a 2016 Honda motorcycle driven by Sean T. Bowman, 54, of St. Louis, which was traveling north on Bluff Road.

Bowman was pronounced deceased at the scene, and a 50-year-old female passenger on his bike was transported by ambulance to a St. Louis area hospital for treatment of serious injuries.

The MCSD said Albert was transported to a local hospital as part of an investigation to determine if any intoxicating substances played a part in the crash. He was cited for disobeying a stop sign, although police said the crash investigation continues.