Motorcyclist injured in crash
Published 3:06 pm Wednesday, June 19, 2013
A car is loaded onto a flatbed trailer to be towed away from the scene of a car versus motorcycle crash on Freeborn County Road 46 Wednesday afternoon. — Sarah Stultz/Albert Lea Tribune
A 20-year-old Clarks Grove man was airlifted to St. Marys Hospital in Rochester Wednesday afternoon after his motorcycle collided with a car on East Main Street in Albert Lea.
Dylan A. Hanson was not wearing a helmet, and his condition as of this morning was fair.
A Minnesota State Patrol trooper directs traffic Wednesday afternoon on Freeborn County Road 46 in between Love’s Truck Stop and Trail’s Travel Center after a crash. — Sarah Stultz/Albert Lea Tribune
He was reportedly traveling eastbound on East Main in a 2000 Harley-Davidson Road Street when a 2012 Ford Fusion, driven by Donald R. Bell, 70, of Dodge Center, proceeded north from the stop sign on 775th Avenue out of the Trail’s Travel Center parking lot into Hanson’s path.
Hanson struck the car broadside, according to the Minnesota State Patrol.
Bell was injured and was treated at Mayo Clinic Health System in Albert Lea. The State Patrol listed both men as having injuries that were not life-threatening.
The State Patrol was assisted at the scene by the Albert Lea Police Department, the Freeborn County Sheriff’s Office, the Albert Lea Fire Department, Gold Cross Ambulance crews and Mayo One crews.
The crash reportedly took place at 1:52 p.m. The State Patrol is continuing to investigate.
