Southbound lanes on School Avenue in Midtown have been closed for nearly 5 hours Sunday night as Fort Collins police investigated experiences of two hit-and-run collisions involving one pickup and two bikes.
The primary crash, at School Avenue and Columbia Street, was reported at 4:43 p.m. Sunday as successful and run, in accordance with a information launch Sunday evening from Fort Collins Police Providers. A 2000 Dodge Dakota was southbound on School and collided with a 2022 black Harley Davidson Street Glide motorbike with two folks driving it. An grownup male and an grownup feminine have been taken to a hospital with “criticism of accidents,” in accordance with the information launch.
The second hit-and-run crash was reported two minutes later, simply south of the primary crash and simply north of Drake Street. The Dakota struck a 2012 black Harley Davidson Sportster 48 motorbike, and its grownup male rider was transported to a hospital with critical however nonlife-threatening accidents, in accordance with police. The bumper and license plate of the truck have been discovered on the scene of the second collision.
Officers discovered the truck on the handle the place it was registered, police mentioned, and it had “injury constant from the collision.” The driving force of the truck “absolutely cooperated” with investigators, and in accordance with the information launch, police are working to find out if the motive force skilled a medical occasion which will have performed a job within the collisions.
The street closures lasted for practically 5 hours. Fort Collins police mentioned on Twitter at 5:33 p.m. they have been investigating the crashes and shutting southbound lanes. They posted at 10:13 p.m. that the street had reopened.
Police ask anybody with data who has not already spoken to police to name Officer David Kaes at (970) 416-2229.