BROOKLYN \u2014 A motorcyclist and his passenger were seriously injured Sunday afternoon after they rear-ended a car, according to Connecticut State Police.<\/p>\n
The crash was reported around 2:15 p.m. on Providence Road, also known as Route 6, state police said in a summary of the crash.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The 2019 Harley Davidson\u00a0Fltrxs was heading westbound on the the road when it “struck the right portion” of the back of a 2022 Hyundai\u00a0Ioniq, state police said.<\/p>\n
The summary said the motorcyclist was a 36-year-old man from Brooklyn. His passenger was a 35-year-old woman from Webster, Mass. Both were taken to the hospital, the crash summary said. It described the rider’s injuries as serious, while his passenger had suspected life-threatening injuries.<\/p>\n
It indicated the rider was transported by UMass Memorial Health’s Life Flight, a helicopter ambulance service. The summary did not indicate how the passenger of the motorcycle was taken to the hospital.<\/p>\n
The driver of the Hyundai was not injured, state police said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
State police said the crash remains under investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BROOKLYN \u2014 A motorcyclist and his passenger were seriously injured Sunday afternoon after they rear-ended a car, according…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":227174,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-227173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227173\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}