The California Highway Patrol has released details of an early morning collision on Center Road, near Cramer Ranch Road, which sent a Susanville man to the hospital with major injuries.
According to the CHP report, at around 6:30a.m., Thursday a motorcyclist identified as 31-year old Susanville resident Matthew Lively was traveling eastbound on Center Road at an unknown speed, approaching the intersection of Center and Cramer Ranch Road.
At the same time a woman identified as 35-year old Susanville resident Dana Soares was driving a 2016 Toyota north on Cramer Ranch Road.
Soares came to a stop at the intersection and waited for a break in traffic, intending to turn left onto westbound Center Road.
After multiple vehicles passed by Soares pulled out into the intersection and did not see Lively’s approaching motorcycle.
Lively applied a ‘hard-braking application’ to the motorcycle in an attempt to avoid the Toyota which was entering his course of travel.
Lively’s motorcycle overturned, and he struck the front of Soares’ vehicle.
According to the CHP report the driver of the Toyota suffered minor injuries.
Lively suffered major injuries, which the CHP report characterized as ‘dismemberment’, and he was transported from the scene by by SEMSA Air I to Renown Health Hospital in Reno.
The collision remains under investigation at this time.
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