WARREN COUNTY — A 26-year-old man has died following a motorcycle crash in Warren County on Wednesday.
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State troopers from the Lebanon Post of the Ohio State Highway Patrol (OSHP) responded at 8:23 p.m. to reports of a crash on North Waynesville Road, north of Hollingsworth Road in Turtle Creek Township.
The 26-year-old man who died has been identified as Mathew Schmitz of Fairfield Township, according to an OSHP spokesperson.
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An OSHP preliminary investigation said that a 2000 Honda CBR-600 motorcycle was traveling southwest on North Waynesville Road when a 26-year-old man failed to negotiate a curve.
Schmitz went off the right side of the road and hit a tree.
He was the only person on the motorcycle and wore a helmet at the time of the crash.
State troopers said Schmitz died at the scene, the spokesperson said.
The crash remains under investigation.
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