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Weekend Pottawattamie County motorcycle accidents

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November 2nd, 2015 by Ric Hanson

Sheriff’s officials in Pottawattamie County report four people were hurt in separate motorcycle accidents, Sunday. The Omaha World-Herald says the crashes occurred near Walnut, Underwood and Crescent. None involved another vehicle. Sunday afternoon near Walnut, the male driver of a motorcycle took an S-curve too fast near 510th Street and Sumac. The cycle rolled into a ditch. The driver and his passenger, who were not wearing helmets, suffered head injuries and were transported by ambulance to the Cass County Memorial Hospital in Atlantic, before being flown by helicopter to the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha. Their injuries were not considered life-threatening at the time of the accident.

Another motorcycle crash occurred between Council Bluffs and Underwood when a driver lost control of his motorcycle for an unknown reason. The man landed in a marshy ditch near the intersection of Railroad Highway and L34. He was conscious and alert when LifeNet flew him to an Omaha hospital for non-life-threatening injuries. The man was wearing a helmet.

The third crash happened near 205th Street and Badger Avenue, outside of Crescent. Authorities were unsure whether the driver was taken to the hospital but said he had injuries not considered life-threatening at the time of the accident.