One person is dead and another seriously injured in two unrelated crashes about eight hours apart in the Portland metro area.
The first crash occurred in Clark County near Yacolt at about 6:30 p.m. Wednesday when a motorcyclist “left the roadway in a curve and collided with vegetation off the shoulder,” the Clark County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement. No other vehicle was involved in the crash.
The rider, whose name hasn’t been released, was taken to a hospital by a Life Flight helicopter. The motorcyclist later died, the sheriff’s office said…