A motorcyclist suffered fatal injuries in a crash with another vehicle on the Ortega Highway near Lake Elsinore Friday, fire officials report.
According to Melody Hendrickson with the Riverside County Fire Department, the crash was reported around 11:20 a.m., along the curvy highway, at Monte Vista Road.
The driver of a Toyota compact and a motorcyclist, each coming from opposite directions, collided on a bend in the highway, the CHP reported.
Hendrickson tells Lake Elsinore-Wildomar Patch that the motorcyclist died at the scene.
No other injuries have been reported.
A total of three engine companies and nine firefighters were sent to the scene, according to fire reports.
Traffic on the Ortega was snarled because of the wreck and a road repair project happening near the location of the crash, according to the CHP.
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