A MOTORCYCLE rider has been seriously injured after crashing his bike at high speed on the Hume Highway in one of several weekend accidents.<\/p>\n
Police believe the 62-year-old Melbourne man\u2019s safety gear protected him from more serious injuries as he slid about 60 metres along the road.<\/p>\n
He had been travelling south near Chiltern with two other riders about 8am.<\/p>\n
A car in front of the group swerved to avoid a dead kangaroo on the road but the man was unable to swerve in time.<\/p>\n
His bike struck the kangaroo and he fell off a slid, and his bike travelled about 130 metres.<\/p>\n
He was treated by paramedics at the scene before being taken to Albury Hospital with serious injuries.<\/p>\n
Leading Senior Constable Brian Tyler said the man would have been travelling at close to 110km\/h when he struck the animal.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe wouldn\u2019t have had time to swerve,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe was doing everything right and it shows why you have to be alert while riding a motorbike.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe protective equipment has definitely saved him from more serious injuries.\u201d<\/p>\n
Leading Senior Constable Tyler said truck drivers often hit kangaroos and left the carcasses on the road.<\/p>\n
It was difficult to stop and move the dead animals off the highway, especially at night, he said.<\/p>\n
The crash was one of at least four accidents in the region on Sunday, with a utility badly damaged in Wodonga, a four-wheel-drive rollover at Yackandandah and another motorbike crash in Bogong.<\/p>\n
Leading Senior Constable Tyler said the Wodonga crash had been caused by inattention.<\/p>\n
An 18-year-old Yackandandah man crashed into a car turning right from Parkers Road in Niblick Street about 11.30am, which in turn struck a car in front of it.<\/p>\n
All three cars were damaged, and the 18-year-old\u2019s utility was written off.<\/p>\n
He will be issued a penalty notice for failing to keep a sufficient distance between vehicles.<\/p>\n
\u201cPeople need to be 100 per cent concentrating when they’re on the road,\u201d Leading Senior Constable Tyler said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere is no place for lapses in concentration or inattention, because things like this happen.<\/p>\n
\u2018We’re lucky today that there are no serious injuries and everyone gets to go home.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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