On Sunday, June 12, at about 2:34 a.m. Van Buren Township Police and Fire personnel were dispatched to the area of East Huron River Drive and Edison Lake for a motorcycle crash.
Van Buren Public Safety personnel arrived to locate a crashed motorcycle, unoccupied off the roadway, north of Huron River Drive.
Officers searched the area and located a male next to a tree near his motorcycle. Officers began CPR on the victim who was later pronounced dead by Huron Valley Ambulance Paramedics on scene.
Preliminary investigation shows that the motorcycle was traveling west on Huron River Drive when it went off the roadway, traveled several feet in the grass, flipped several more feet until coming to a rest, and the rider thrown against a tree.
The victim was later identified as Shawn Anthony Beaton, 38, a resident of Maybee.
Members of the Accident Investigative Team were called to the scene and the crash is still under investigation.