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Police are investigating a crash in southeast London that sent a motorcyclist to hospital with life-threatening injuries, the collision happening within three hours of a fatal motorcycle crash near west-end Byron.
It was about 5:45 p.m. last Friday, Aug. 23, when police say emergency crews responded to a collision between a motorcycle and a vehicle in the area of Highbury Avenue and Dingman Drive. The male driver of the motorcycle was taken to hospital with life-threatening injuries, police said.
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The man remained in hospital as of Tuesday, police said, though the extent of his injuries wasn’t made public. The investigation was ongoing and police were asking anyone with dashboard-camera footage or video surveillance to contact them at 519-661-5670.
The crash was one of two involving a motorcycle in just a few hours on Friday in the city.
Police said emergency crews responded to a collision involving a motorcycle and a vehicle in the area of Southdale Road West and Byronhills Drive around 8:30 p.m. on Aug. 23. The motorcycle driver died, police said, and the investigation was ongoing.
The deadly London crash marks the ninth fatal collision involving a motorcycle in the past two months in the London region, all the others on rural roads. It’s a trend Ontario Provincial Police say is happening across the province, and serious enough to prompt an enforcement blitz on OPP-monitored roads.
“We’ve got good ones and we’ve got other ones that put people at risk,” OPP Sgt. Ed Sanchuk said of motorcyclists earlier this month. “We’re just asking people, if you are operating a motorcycle, please make sure you’re always putting your safety as a priority, checking your lane changes, making sure you’re visible . . . and driving within the speed limit.”
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