Two Motorcycle Crashes in Hercules Wednesday Morning

By Bay City News

Emergency crews responded to three separate motorcycle crashes on
Interstate Highway 80 and Interstate Highway 580 in Richmond and Hercules
Wednesday morning, authorities said.

One motorcyclist, a 21-year-old man, was airlifted to John Muir Medical Center with major injuries after a crash that occurred on eastbound Highway 80 at Hilltop Drive around 7:50 a.m., Richmond Fire Battalion Chief Merlin Turner said.

Around the same time, a second biker, a 50-year-old man, was airlifted from Highway 580 near the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge toll plaza to Doctors Medical Center in San Pablo with serious injuries, Turner said.

He had been riding his motorcycle west on the highway around 7:55 a.m. when he collided with another vehicle, according to the California Highway Patrol.

Around 8:45 a.m., third motorcyclist was involved in a crash with a pickup truck on westbound Highway 80 near the Willow Avenue exit in Hercules, according to preliminary CHP reports.

The extent of that motorcyclist's injuries was not immediately known.

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