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RIP JOE MONTOYA OCT 23rd 2011

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AFM #13 Joe Montoya tries the outside line around #1 Frank Mazur in 1982

Former AFM President Joe Montoya died Sunday while riding his street bike, after a car crossed a double yellow line on Redwood Road in Castro Valley, California and hit him.

According to the local California Highway Patrol website, the crash occurred at 4:17 p.m. and Montoya was declared dead at the scene.

Montoya, who we believe was in his mid-50s, raced as Team Bozo with his brother Wayne and ran AFM North for 17 years, from 1989 through 2005.

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