Woman dies from injuries in Saturday motorcycle crash on Highway 108

A 59-year-old Manteca woman has died from injuries suffered in a motorcycle crash near Oakdale on Saturday, the California Highway Patrol said.

The woman, whose name has not been released pending notification of her family, was driving a 2008 Harley Davidson on Highway 108/120 when the accident occurred at 11:25 a.m.

According to a CHP news release, officers dispatched on a report of a motorcyclist down arrived to find the motorcycle and on its wheels against a fence and the rider on the ground, being attended to by emergency medical staff.

Investigators determined the woman was riding the Harley east on the highway at about 35 mph approaching a curve to the left and a rise in the road about two miles east of Lancaster Road.

The rider lost control of the Harley and it went onto the south shoulder of the road. She tried to regain control, but the motorcycle went down into a water culvert and hit an embankment, throwing the rider.

The woman was taken to Oak Valley Hospital in Oakdale, where she died from her injuries. She was wearing a helmet, and drugs or alcohol are not suspected to be a factor, the CHP said.

It is the third fatality near that stretch of Highway 108 in January.

On Jan. 4, 23-year-old Eddie Fernando Gonzales Jr. was killed in a two-car accident when he lost control of his Jeep Grand Cherokee while negotiating a right-hand curve, the CHP said. He crossed the double yellow lines into the eastbound lane and into the path of a Chevy Tahoe, whose driver suffered major injuries.

On Jan. 18, 20-year-old Zachery Moore suffered fatal injuries after the 2001 Infiniti sedan he was driving west near Kennedy Road veered across the double yellow lines into the path of a 2015 Dodge flatbed truck, according to the CHP. The truck driver suffered minor injuries.

The first two fatal wrecks occurred further east near Kennedy Road.

This story was originally published January 29, 2018 at 6:59 AM with the headline "Woman dies from injuries in Saturday motorcycle crash on Highway 108."