Police said Sherman was operating the motorcycle at 79 miles per hour in a posted 35 mile per hour zone.
MONSON - Monson police have identified the operator involved in the fatal motorcycle accident on Tuesday night as Timothy W. Sherman of 502 Wilbraham Road in Springfield.
Police Chief Stephen Kozloski Jr. said the accident was reported at 7:40 p.m. on Lower Hampden Road.
Just prior to the accident, an officer parked on the side of the road, several hundred feet from the accident scene, clocked Sherman on radar traveling eastbound at 79 miles per hour in a posted 35 mile per hour zone. Kozloski said Sherman continued past the officer at a high rate of speed, entered a slight curve in the road and then traveled off the right side of the roadway before hitting a tree.
He was taken to Wing Memorial Hospital in Palmer by Monson Fire Department ambulance where he was pronounced dead on arrival.
The Monson Police Department was assisted in the investigation by the state police collision analysis and reconstruction section.