NORTH COAST, Calif. – On Friday, authorities in Mendocino County identified the man killed in a motorcycle crash the previous afternoon, as well as the other two drivers involved in the wreck.

Joel Harrison, 62, of Redwood Valley was the man who died in the crash, according to Capt. Greg Van Patten of the Mendocino County Sheriff’s Office.

The other drivers involved were 37-year-old Lakeport resident Kathryn Lanier-Smith and Timothy David Klee, 53, of Ukiah, said Officer Olegario Marin of the California Highway Patrol’s Ukiah Area office.

The CHP’s initial report said the crash occurred shortly before 5 p.m. Thursday in the area of Highway 20 and Marina Drive, near Lake Mendocino.

The report said Harrison, who was traveling westbound, rode his 2004 Harley Davidson into the path of the 2018 Toyota Camry driven by Lanier-Smith, who was traveling eastbound. She collided with him head-on.

Klee, who was traveling behind Lanier-Smith in a 2001 Chevrolet Coronado, swerved to the left to avoid the crash and the right side of his vehicle hit the left front of Lanier-Smith’s Camry, according to the CHP.

Harrison died at the scene, the CHP said.

The CHP said Lanier-Smith was taken to Adventist Health Ukiah Valley for treatment of moderate injuries and Klee was uninjured.

Officials said the crash remains under investigation.

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