This motorcycle, parked at Ishikawa Police Station in Uruma, Okinawa, Nov. 20, 2024, was involved in a fatal collision the previous day in Kin town. (Keishi Koja/Stars and Stripes)

CAMP FOSTER, Okinawa — One Marine motorcyclist died and another was injured Tuesday in a multivehicle crash in northern Okinawa, according to Japanese police and the Marine Corps.

Police identified the Marine who died, but Stars and Stripes is withholding his name until his family is notified. Police did not identify the injured Marine.

A spokesman for III Marine Expeditionary Force, Capt. Pawel Puczko, by email Wednesday declined to identify the Marines before the notifications or confirm their ranks.

A lance corporal, 21, was killed and a corporal, 20, was injured at 8:16 p.m. on northbound Route 329 in the Yaka district of Kin town, according to an Okinawa Prefectural Police spokesman. A third Marine riding in the group was uninjured, the spokesman said by phone Wednesday.

All three are from Camp Hansen, according to the spokesman.

The two Marines, riding side by side, collided, and the lance corporal’s bike veered into the oncoming lane, hit the right front of a passenger car and then a kei truck behind the car, according to police.

The corporal hit the rear of the passenger car in front of him, the spokesman said.

Puczko said the deceased Marine was declared dead at Chubu hospital in Uruma city. Police said he was pronounced at 9:13 p.m. Tuesday.

The injured Marine was in stable condition at Naval Hospital Okinawa, Puczko said. Police said he apparently broke his ankle.

The third Marine, 22, was riding behind the others and not involved in the crash, the spokesman said. No one else was injured in the accident.

Puczko said the Marines Corps is cooperating with local authorities on the investigation.

Some Japanese government officials are required to speak to the media only on condition of anonymity.