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Motorcyclist taken to hospital with serious injuries after Kitchener crash
A vehicle from the traffic branch of the Waterloo Regional Police Service. (Matt Harris/CTV Kitchener)
A motorcyclist was taken to an out-of-region hospital after a serious single vehicle crash in Kitchener.
Police were called to the Fischer-Hallman Road and Rosenberg Way area around 4:50 p.m. Friday.
They said the collision involved a blue motorcycle.
The motorcyclist, a 21-year-old man from Kitchener, was taken to hospital with serious, non-life-threatening injuries.
The intersection was closed for several hours for an investigation.
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