Crime & Safety

Motorcyclist Injured on Vasco Road Expected to Survive

Man airlifted to hospital and treated for leg injury.

A motorcyclist who was injured when he rear-ended a cement truck  on Vasco Road Monday morning is expected to survive, a California Highway Patrol spokesman said.

The crash happened at about 6:25 a.m. on southbound Vasco Road north of the Alameda-Contra Costa county line, CHP Officer Tom Maguire said.

A concrete mixer truck was driving slowly up the hill in the No. 2 lane when the motorcyclist, a 23-year-old Pleasant Hill resident, came up behind him at a high rate of speed.

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It appears that the motorcyclist might have tried to go around the concrete truck, but rear-ended it instead, Maguire said.

He was taken by helicopter to Doctors Medical Center of Modesto, where he was being treated for a leg injury.

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Southbound Vasco Road was closed for about half an hour while the helicopter landed, Maguire said.

The cement truck was able to drive away from the crash, but the motorcycle was totaled. Investigators do not believe drugs or alcohol contributed to the crash.

--Bay City News Service


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