BROOKLYN, CT \u2014 Two people were seriously injured Sunday afternoon when their motorcycle collided with a car on Route 6, and one of the victim\u2019s injuries are considered to be life-threatening, according to state police.<\/p>\n
The accident happened around 2:14 p.m.<\/p>\n
State police said a 2022 Hyundai Ioniq SE was traveling westbound on Providence Road, or Route 6. A 2019 Harley Davidson motorcycle traveling behind it in the same direction struck the rear of the Hyundai, according to police.<\/p>\n
The operator of the Harley Davidson, a 36-year-old Brooklyn man, and the passenger, a 35-year-old Webster, Mass. woman, were both taken to UMass Memorial Medical Center for treatment.<\/p>\n
State police described the motorcycle operator\u2019s injuries as \u201cserious,\u201d and the passenger\u2019s injuries as \u201clife-threatening.\u201d<\/p>\n
The driver of the Hyundai, a 30-year-old Canterbury man, was not injured. <\/p>\n
An investigation into the accident is ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BROOKLYN, CT \u2014 Two people were seriously injured Sunday afternoon when their motorcycle collided with a car on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":227450,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-227449","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\/227449","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=227449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227449\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}