Paul Raymond Maddex, 79, killed, after his motorcycle crashes into a ditch on Connoisarally Road in East Otto.

The Cattaraugus County Sheriff’s department says 79-year-old Paul Raymond Maddex died Monday after the motorcycle he was riding went off the road and into a ditch on Connoisarally Road in the Town of East Otto.

Sheriff deputies found Maddex unresponsive and not breathing. Medical personnel from the East Otto Fire Department and Rural Metro ambulance performed CPR and transported him to Bertrand Chaffee Hospital where he was later pronounced dead.