A motorcyclist was airlifted to a hospital after suffering a severe leg injury from a traffic collision, officials said.
At around noon, emergency crews were sent to South Vasco Road and Preston Avenue for a report of a collision involving a car and motorcycle.
A portion of Vasco Road was temporarily shut down to allow room for a helicopter to land, said Joe Testa, Livermore-Pleasanton Fire Department battalion chief.
Livermore Police Officer Traci Rebiejo said the intersection will remain closed while police continue to investigate the collision. The area is expected to reopen at around 3 p.m.
No other injuries were reported in the collision.
In the past year police have responded to 29 crashes in town involving motorcycles, with 23 being injury crashes and two fatal crashes, Rebiejo said.
@Melissa: Pulse Point. We'll have a story on the new app soon from the Alameda County Fire Department.
There are a lot of reckless turds on 2 wheels too but at least they can only really mess themselves up. Lucy Teenypants in mom's SUV on her cel phone runs the risk of injuring a lot more with much less risk.
As a "cager", one of the biggest irritations I have seen dealing with motorcyclists is when they are driving in my blindspots. If I can hear the jerk but can not see him, then that is a problem. I had some joker on a Harley pull that stunt on me on Highway 50 between Rancho Cordova and Folsom as I was trying to get over to the right lane to exit to Folsom Boulevard east of Aerojet's Nimbus facility. Turns out the joker was getting off that exit and trying to share my spot with me even as we were turning right into the shopping center. When I would not turn right for him, he got rude, and I told him to go ahead of me so I could see where he was going. Mr. Clueless-in-a-Helmet did not get that. And then there's "lane-splitting" and that practice has to be outlawed. It is unsafe and dangerous especially when it is done at normal freeway speeds around here. And when you have questionable roads like the outside two lanes of I-580 over Altamont Pass, all that dirt and oil on the road just makes for a bad situation which will get worse as the rains come back in the wet season. And besides, when I took a motorcycle safety course when I was 16, the instructor told my parents it was better for me to drive a car first instead of a motorcycle.
And if you have one of those cheap carriers out there that uses the name of a heavenly body in our solar system, they will always argue that they never will pay out on the claim even if you spent $10,000 over the last 10 years with them faithfully paying your premiums to keep you covered. And besides, I've driven in Georgia and those drivers seem much better in their natural habitat than California drivers are in theirs, let alone the rest of the country. It's when you have clowns on I-580 west who realize they don't want to take the Bay Bridge and decide to stop, put the car in reverse or try a U-turn across 3 lanes of traffic to get to the two lanes that turn off into eastbound 80 at the Maze, even at 5:00am on a Saturday or Sunday. Those are the basket cases out there who need to have their heads examined, or need plexiglass shields around their stomachs so they can see out when their heads are suffering from "anal-cranial inversions".
I have seen it all !!! There's a lot cagers that should have there privlage of driving taken away tell they go visit death at the morge just to see what somthing like running a red light or cutting a motorcycliest off will do. And I can tell you a ton more stores believe me!!