A motorcyclist and his passenger were both seriously injured on Sunday evening (August 30) after colliding with a pickup truck on Northeys Bay Road in North Kawartha Township.
At around 6:30 p.m. on Sunday, Peterborough County Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) were contacted by emergency medical services who were enroute to a collision on Northeys Bay Road.
Officers arrived on scene to find a pickup truck with front-end damage and a motorcycle lying on the road beside the truck. According to the OPP, the motorcycle appeared to have been travelling eastbound when it failed to negotiate a bend in the road, crossing into the other lane and colliding with the westbound pickup truck.
The driver of the motorcycle, a 23-year-old Ottawa man, was treated at the scene and then airlifted to a Toronto-area trauma centre due to the extent of his injuries.
The passenger on the motorcycle, a 22-year-old Peterborough woman, was initially taken to a local hospital before being also being transported to a Toronto-area trauma centre due to the extent of her injuries.
The two occupants of the pickup truck were uninjured, although the airbags in their truck had deployed.
Northeys Bay Road remained closed for several hours while first responders dealt with the collision scene and police documented the scene.
The collision is still under investigation, and police are asking anyone who may have witnessed the collision or has dashcam or video footage and who has not yet spoken to police, to call the Peterborough County OPP at 1-888-310-1122.
This is the second serious incident this summer involving a motorcycle on Northeys Bay Road. On July 25, a 54-year-old Oshawa man died at the scene after his motorcycle crashed on the road near Fire Route 19.
