DEFIANCE COUNTY, Ohio (WPTA) - One person is dead following a crash involving a motorcycle in Defiance County Saturday.

The Defiance Police Department says the crash happened around 4:30 p.m. at the intersection of South Clinton Street and West Second Street.

A preliminary investigation indicates that a motorcycle was driving northbound on South Clinton Street, when a vehicle traveling southbound on South Clinton Street attempted to make a left turn onto West Second Street and entered the path of the motorcycle.

The motorcyclist, identified as 64-year-old Danny Andrew Beauprez Jr., was transported to a hospital where he later died.

The driver of the other vehicle was not injured.

Alcohol and drugs are not suspected to be a factor.

The crash remains under investigation.

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