The California Highway Patrol in San Andreas is still looking for witnesses to a motorcycle fatality that occurred some time after 5 p.m. Saturday.

The body of Earl E. Wiggins, a 61-year-old resident of Hathaway Pines, was found at the bottom of a steep embankment along with his motorcycle by friends and family members Tuesday morning.

They had reported him missing Sunday when he failed to show up for work in Angels Camp. He was last seen leaving work on his 1997 Harley Davidson the previous evening.

A preliminary investigation showed Wiggins was traveling eastbound on Murphys Grade Road when he failed to negotiate a left radius curve in the road and ran off the south edge.

"We're still looking for witnesses," said Officer Jaime Castillo Thursday. Witnesses should call 754-3541.

Wiggins is the third traffic fatality to occur in the CHP's San Andreas jurisdiction this year, and the first motorcycle death. Last year, the San Andreas CHP investigated five motorcycle deaths.

Two Tracy teens took a frightening spill when their 2000 Dodge drifted off Highway 88 west of Shake Ridge Road Tuesday afternoon and struck a dirt embankment.

The driver, 18-year-old Christopher Brohard, couldn't regain control after his vehicle veered onto a dirt shoulder as it swung through a left-hand curve. The Dodge swerved then spun, hitting the embankment and rolling onto its left side where it slid briefly and landed back on its wheels. Only Brohard's passenger, a 17-year-old female whose name wasn't released because of her age, suffered minor injuries.

A 52-year-old Sutter Creek woman was arrested for driving under the influence Monday night after rolling her truck at Pine Gulch and Shake Ridge roads.

Joyce Gould had struck an embankment in her 1994 Dodge Dakota. The CHP said Gould fled the accident scene on foot and went to her house a short distance away. Officers located her at her home intoxicated and with cuts to her upper lip and palm. Gould denied being in the truck and couldn't say how she was injured.