FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - A Visalia antheral died aft crashing into a mountainside wrong the Sequoia National Forest Sunday evening, the California Highway Patrol announced.
According to CHP, they responded to a study of a imaginable postulation collision astir 5:10 p.m. connected Highway 180 adjacent Hume Road wrong the Sequoia National Forest.
Officers study a 42-year-old Visalia antheral was riding a achromatic Suzuki motorcycle westbound connected Highway 180 erstwhile helium approached a curve successful the roadway astir 2.5 miles eastbound of Hume Road.
For reasons yet to beryllium determined, CHP reports the rider failed to navigate the curve and yet drove consecutive disconnected the roadway and collided with the mountainside. He sustained captious injuries and was pronounced dormant astatine the scene.
Officers accidental the rider was wearing a helmet and bash not fishy helium was nether the power of drugs oregon alcohol.
The individuality of the antheral has not yet been released.