Unified police have identified a motorcyclist who died when his bike crashed into a rock wall in Big Cottonwood Canyon.
UPD Detective Chuck Malm said 62-year-old Barry S. Walton, of Taylorsville, was riding west along an “S” curve about 3 p.m. Tuesday when he apparently lost control, went off the road and slammed into the rocks.
Walton, who was not wearing a helmet, was dead when officers arrived at the scene. Passers-by had, moments before, stopped to render aid, but it was too late.
The cause of the accident remained under investigation on Wednesday.