LAKE COUNTY, Calif. — A San Rafael man died Sunday as the result of a motorcycle crash on the Mendocino National Forest near Upper Lake.
Rex B. Powell, 68, died in the crash, which the California Highway Patrol’s Clear Lake Area office said occurred on an off-highway vehicle trail on the Mendocino National Forest’s Upper Lake Ranger District Sunday morning.
The CHP said Powell was riding his 2022 Husqvarna motorcycle on the trail at 9:50 a.m. Sunday when he came upon debris blocking the trail and applied the brakes to his motorcycle.
The braking caused Powell to be thrown from the bike and into the brush, the CHP said.
Despite Powell being in full protective gear, the CHP said he was impaled by a broken branch.
Medical aid was attempted at the crash scene before Powell was moved to the Middle Creek Campground staging area, where an individual who wasn’t involved called 911, the CHP said.
The CHP said emergency crews arrived and attempted to render medical aid, however, Powell was pronounced deceased at the scene.
Neither alcohol nor drugs are factors in this crash, the CHP said.
This was the fourth fatal crash in Lake County in less than a week. The other wrecks occurred near Upper Lake on Wednesday, Middletown on Friday and Lucerne on Saturday.
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