A bicyclist died Saturday after being hit by the driver of a motorhome on Oregon 140 in Jackson County, Oregon State Police said.

Police responded to the wreck at 2:44 p.m. near milepost 4. Their preliminary investigation found that a motorhome driven by Richard Fay McCoy, 57, of Central Point, hit cyclist Wesley Mad Olngellel, 37, also of Central Point, who was in the eastbound lane.

Olngellel died at the scene, police said. McCoy, the motorhome driver, was uninjured.

The crash interrupted traffic for about two hours on Saturday. The cause of the crash remains under investigation.

This story was drafted with the assistance of generative AI based on data from Oregon State Police and reviewed by Oregonian editorial staff.

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