A FM 71 motorcycle crash on Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2023, resulted in one death, according to Texas Department of Public Safety reports.
Preliminary investigation indicates a man was riding a 2007 Honda VTX 1300 motorcycle on FM 71, just east of the Sulphur Bluff community in Hopkins County at 1:57 p.m. Jan. 11, 2023. The eastbound bike ran off the road going around a corner and struck a concrete culvert. The operator died at the hospital after being transported, Texas DPS Highway Patrol Trooper Cody Sagnibene noted in the preliminary crash report.
Precinct 1 Justice of the Peace BJ Teer responded at Christus Mother Francis Hospital in Sulphur Springs, where he pronounced 73-year-old Bobby Wilson of Lone Oak dead.
The fatal FM 71 motorcycle crash remains under investigation by DPS.
