NICE, Calif. – A Kelseyville man was seriously injured on Thursday when his motorcycle crashed into a vehicle on the Nice-Lucerne Cutoff.
Raymond Cromwell, 58, suffered major injuries in the wreck, which occurred at around 3:30 p.m. Thursday, according to Officer Kory Reynolds of the California Highway Patrol.
Reynolds said Cromwell was riding a 2007 Harley Davidson motorcycle westbound on the Nice-Lucerne Cutoff at about 30 miles per hour.
Ahead of him was a 2007 Pontiac G4 driven by Veronica Becerra Lopez, 22, of Nice, Reynolds said.
Becerra Lopez’s car was stopped while she waited for another car to turn ahead of her into the county park. Cromwell, who was coming through the curve before the bridge over the Rodman Slough, was unable to stop in time and hit the back of the car, according to Reynolds.
Cromwell was thrown from his motorcycle and went down in the roadway’s eastbound lane. Reynolds said some people helped pull Crowell out of the road.
Reynolds said Cromwell suffered a fractured left shoulder, lacerations on his arms and the back of the head, broken ribs and a punctured lung.
Cromwell was flown by a REACH air ambulance to Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital, according to Reynolds.
Becerra Lopez was uninjured, Reynolds said.
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Kelseyville man injured in Thursday motorcycle wreck
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