On Wednesday, September 10th, Valley District rangers responded to a report that the body of a motorcyclist had been found over the embankment on the south side of the Wawona tunnel on Highway 41. The operator, a 48-year-old man from Long Beach, was pronounced dead at the scene. Investigation revealed that he'd died on the night of September 8th when his motorcycle left the roadway at a high rate of speed and collided with several trees.