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One person died in a motorcycle accident in Ruthven on Wednesday evening.

According to the OPP, at approximately 9:40 p.m., officers from the Kingsville OPP, with assistance from Windsor-Essex Emergency Services, responded to a single-vehicle crash involving a motorcycle on County Road 34 near County Road 45 in Ruthven, Town of Kingsville.

The motorcyclist, a 64-year-old man, was taken to hospital where he was pronounced dead.

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Members of the OPP West Region Traffic Incident Management Team are assisting with the investigation and are asking the public for assistance. Anyone with information is asked to contact the Kingsville OPP at 1-888-310-1122.

For motorcyclists in the region, this has already been one of the deadliest summers ever.

As of mid-July, 22 motorcyclists had been killed on OPP-patrolled roads in Ontario. Among those victims was a Leamington resident who died on June 23 between Chatham and London after he left the road and struck a tree. Another 28-year-old Leamington motorcyclist was killed on May 1 near Hillman Marsh, and a Windsor motorcyclist, Ali Hashmat, 19, was killed on April 28 on Dougall Avenue near the EC Row Expressway.

Windsor experienced a series of motorcycle deaths in a short period of time last year. Four Windsor men, aged between 16 and 42, were killed in four crashes involving other vehicles between August 24 and October 27 – one of which was a collision between two motorcycles on the EC Row Expressway.

According to a recent OPP report, speeding, failure to yield, inattention and loss of control were the causes of more than half of the nearly 400 fatal traffic crashes on OPP-policed ​​roads in Ontario over the past decade.

“Our data makes it clear that the majority of fatal crashes involving motorcyclists are preventable,” said Rohan Thompson, OPP deputy commissioner and head of the traffic safety division, in July.

— With files from Doug Schmidt

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