Motorcyclist dies riding in GTNP

Sunday, June 17, 2007

By PJH Staff

GRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK, WYO. – A Park City, Utah, man died on Saturday morning while driving his motorcycle in Grand Teton National Park, park officials reported Sunday.

Ray R. Ricks, 59, was riding through Grand Teton on his way to Yellowstone National Park with two companions when for unknown reasons he drove off the side of the road 200 yards north of the entrance to the Lizard Creek Campground near the north end of Jackson Lake.

Ricks’ traveling companions reported that he slumped over on his motorcycle just before veering off the road at a slow speed and dropping down an embankment along the roadside.

Teton Interagency Dispatch Center received a call about 8:55 a.m. from the Wyoming Highway Patrol who reported the incident. A motorist, passing by at the time of the incident apparently made an emergency call and contacted the highway patrol.

Park rangers immediately responded to the scene and located Ricks and his motorcycle lying near the base of some trees down a 15-foot embankment. Ricks was unresponsive when park rangers reached him. They quickly started cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) in an attempt to revive him on site. A life flight helicopter from Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center in Idaho Falls was also summoned for emergency transport.

Although rangers performed CPR and other emergency medical procedures for 40 minutes, efforts to revive Ricks were unsuccessful and he was subsequently pronounced dead. The cause of death will be determined by the Teton County Coroner.


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