Motorcyclist hurt in crash in Vanocker Canyon

News Staff
August 3, 2022
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Last Updated 2 years ago

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.

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