STURGIS, S.D. – A motorcyclist was injured Tuesday after crashing his bike in Vanocker Canyon.
The highway patrol says a 69-year-old male failed to negotiate a curve at mile marker 1 on Vanocker Canyon Road when he ran off the road and hit a sign.
The motorcyclist, who was not wearing a helmet, was transported by ambulance to the Sturgis hospital with serious, but non-life-threatening injuries.
The accident was reported around 11:00 a.m. about five miles southeast of Sturgis.
