A 34-year-old Lebanon, Missouri, man was seriously injured Saturday evening after he struck his head on a swing-arm gate on Legion Road, knocking him off the bike and leaving him with serious injuries that required an ambulance ride to the hospital.
According to ABC17NEWS, the man was driving an Icebear Champion motorcycle on Legion Road when he crashed east of Valley Road around 7:20 p.m. The crash report, as detailed by KOMU 8, says the man was traveling westbound on Legion Road about 300 feet east of Valley Road at the time.
Per the crash report, the man struck his head on a swing-arm gate while traveling, which knocked him off the bike. The motorcycle landed in the street with moderate damage, and the report says the man landed nearby.
Serious Injuries, Ambulance Transport
The man was taken to Lake Regional Hospital by ambulance with serious injuries, per the crash report. The crash report described him as a 34-year-old Lebanon man.
This is not the only serious motorcycle crash to hit Camden County recently. A separate incident involving a deer left a 51-year-old man from Climax Springs, Missouri, seriously hurt on Highway 5 north of Rock Grove Court, as reported by the same outlet's October coverage. In that crash, which happened around 6:48 a.m. on a Monday, the man was riding a 2006 Harley-Davidson Dyna Wide Glide and was flown to University Hospital with serious injuries; it was unknown at the time whether he had been wearing a helmet.
Investigation Ongoing
No further details have been released about the condition of the Lebanon man injured in the Legion Road crash, and the circumstances surrounding the swing-arm gate itself have not been made public.
