Wood County motorcycle crash injures Toledo man

9/8/2013
BLADE STAFF

TONTOGONY, Ohio — A Toledo motorcyclist was injured Sunday evening when he lost control of his cycle and was thrown off on State Rt. 65 near State Rt. 235 near the Maumee River in Wood County's Washington Township.

The Ohio Highway Patrol said Nathaniel J. Secord, 24, was headed north of Route 65 when he went off the right side of the road, struck a guardrail, and was thrown from his bike and landed onto the road.

The accident was reported at 6:23 p.m.

Trooper said Mr. Secord, who was wearing a helmet, sustained serious, but nonlife-threatening injuries and was flown to Mercy St. Vincent Medical Center, where his condition was not immediately available.