SMITH COUNTY, Texas — A Winona man is dead following a motorcycle crash on Wednesday.
According to the Texas Department of Public Safety, just before 1:30 a.m., troopers responded to a motorcycle crash on Farm-to-Market Road 16, about three miles east of Winona.
The investigator's preliminary report indicates the driver of a motorcycle, identified as James Eliot Lamb, 40, of Winona, was traveling west on FM 16 and struck a tree that had fallen into the roadway during inclement weather.
Lamb was taken to a Tyler hospital where he died on Friday.
The crash remains under investigation.
