Speeding motorcycle crashes, shuts down Rt. 12
NORTH NORWICH – Thursday afternoon, a sheriff’s patrol car passed a speeding motorcycle along State Highway 12 and the deputy called for area units to be on the lookout for it headed north. Within moments of the radio alert, a 911 call reported the same motorcycle had crashed less than half a mile from where it passed the police car.
The motorcycle’s driver, 20-year-old Jordan R. Oliver of Norwich, was flown to SUNY Upstate Medical University at Syracuse by Guthrie Air helicopter. Emergency crews at the scene said Oliver was thrown from his bike in the single vehicle crash before striking a steel guardrail and suffering serious injuries to his legs, one of which was “partially amputated.”
Sheriff’s Lt. Richard Cobb said Thursday that a passing motorist stopped immediately following the accident and used his belt to tie tourniquets on Oliver’s badly injured legs.
The man asked not to be identified and declined comment.
A spokeswoman for Upstate Medical reported Friday morning that Oliver was in serious condition in the hospital’s intensive care unit.
The accident took place at approximately 12:38 p.m. Thursday, about a quarter mile north of the intersection of Bates-Wilson Road and Rt. 12 in the Town of North Norwich.
Just prior to the accident, a broadcast over the police radio recorded a sheriff's deputy observing Oliver’s 2001 Ducati motorcycle traveling at a high rate of speed, heading in the opposite direction of the south bound officer, near Bates-Wilson Road.
According to those transmissions, the estimated speed of the motorcycle at the time it passed the patrol car was around 100 miles per hour.
Within moments of the deputy broadcasting the alert for the speeding motorcycle, a 911 call was received alerting emergency officials of the accident.
Cobb said police were not pursuing Oliver at the time of the accident and no police unit had attempted to pull him over.
The North Norwich Fire Department and Norwich EMS responded to the scene, along with the Sheriff’s Office and New York State Police.
Police said the motorcycle slid over 200 feet after the impact.
Police have not released further details pending the completion of their investigation. Rt. 12 was closed down for about three hours yesterday as emergency crews worked the scene and law enforcement technicians reconstructed the accident.
The motorcycle’s driver, 20-year-old Jordan R. Oliver of Norwich, was flown to SUNY Upstate Medical University at Syracuse by Guthrie Air helicopter. Emergency crews at the scene said Oliver was thrown from his bike in the single vehicle crash before striking a steel guardrail and suffering serious injuries to his legs, one of which was “partially amputated.”
Sheriff’s Lt. Richard Cobb said Thursday that a passing motorist stopped immediately following the accident and used his belt to tie tourniquets on Oliver’s badly injured legs.
The man asked not to be identified and declined comment.
A spokeswoman for Upstate Medical reported Friday morning that Oliver was in serious condition in the hospital’s intensive care unit.
The accident took place at approximately 12:38 p.m. Thursday, about a quarter mile north of the intersection of Bates-Wilson Road and Rt. 12 in the Town of North Norwich.
Just prior to the accident, a broadcast over the police radio recorded a sheriff's deputy observing Oliver’s 2001 Ducati motorcycle traveling at a high rate of speed, heading in the opposite direction of the south bound officer, near Bates-Wilson Road.
According to those transmissions, the estimated speed of the motorcycle at the time it passed the patrol car was around 100 miles per hour.
Within moments of the deputy broadcasting the alert for the speeding motorcycle, a 911 call was received alerting emergency officials of the accident.
Cobb said police were not pursuing Oliver at the time of the accident and no police unit had attempted to pull him over.
The North Norwich Fire Department and Norwich EMS responded to the scene, along with the Sheriff’s Office and New York State Police.
Police said the motorcycle slid over 200 feet after the impact.
Police have not released further details pending the completion of their investigation. Rt. 12 was closed down for about three hours yesterday as emergency crews worked the scene and law enforcement technicians reconstructed the accident.
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