By Taylor Bowden / Assistant News Director

A motorcycle crash in Millwood Township took the life of a Waite Park man on Saturday.

According to Sheriff Steve Soyka, 57-year-old Patrick Kraker was driving his motorcycle southbound on County Road 17 when he left the roadway and crashed in an open field.

A witness of the crash was performing CPR on Kraker when emergency personnel arrived. Melrose Ambulance transported Kraker to the Melrose Hospital where he was later pronounced dead.