CALGARY -- RCMP is investigating a fatal crash involving a motorcyclist just outside Sylvan Lake early Monday.
Police said two motorcyclists were on Highway 11A about 12:30 a.m., roughly 2.5 kilometres west of the townsite, when one of them suddenly veered off the road into a stand of trees.
The rider, a 55-year-old man from Sylvan Lake, was pronounced deceased at the scene.
The second motorcyclist was unhurt.
Investigators are now looking for a cause to the crash.
Sylvan Lake is about 150 kilometres north of Calgary.
