Motorcyclist Escapes Serious Injury In Head-On Crash

Monday, April 15th, 2019 7:40am

By Mike Perleberg @mikedup84

The truck and the motorcycle burned on Rabbit Hash Road on Saturday.

Photo by Boone County Sheriff's Office.

(Boone County, Ky.) - A pickup truck and a motorcycle burned after colliding on Rabbit Hash Road in Boone County over the weekend.

The wreck happened Saturday around 4:00 p.m. when, Boone County Sheriff's deputies say, Carlos Rodriguez, 27, of Florence, lost control of his motorcycle on a curve. The bike struck an oncoming Dodge Ram pickup head-on.

Miraculously, Rodriguez suffered only a fractured right wrist and a leg injury and was flown to an area hospital.

Two men in the pickup were not hurt.

The vehicles caught fire after the collision and were both destroyed.

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