WAYNE COUNTY, Utah — A motorcyclist who was visiting family in Utah from Germany is dead following a crash on SR-24 in Wayne County on Tuesday. The rider has been identified as 59-year-old Udo Hubert Jumpers.
Utah Highway Patrol says that on Tuesday at around 2:07 p.m., Jumpers was traveling east on the highway when he failed to negotiate a curve and ran off the road to the right.
Troopers say Jumpers was thrown from the motorcycle and hit a guardrail. He was wearing a helmet but died at the scene.
The roadway was closed for about an hour while an investigation took place.
