WAUSAUKEE, WI. (THECOUNT) — Scott Rupert, of Marinette, Wisconsin, has been identified as the victim killed while operating a motorcycle in Wausaukee Saturday evening.

Rupert, 64, was traveling on a motorcycle on Perch Lake Road in Wausaukee when the fatal crash occurred around 7 p.m. Saturday.

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Officials determined Rupert struck a deer that was in the roadway. His motorbike then struck a group of trees, say witnesses.

A witness saw an eastbound motorcycle ahead of him hit a deer and go off the road into some trees, according to the sheriff’s department, reports GreenbayPressGazette.

No further information on the collision was provided by officials.

Geo quick facts: Wausaukee is a village in Marinette County, Wisconsin, in the United States. The population was 575 at the 2010 census. The village is part of the Marinette, WI–MI Micropolitan Statistical Area – Wikipedia.