UPDATED — Port Angeles man flown to Seattle hospital after motorcycle accident near Sequim

Published 8:31 pm Monday, July 21, 2014

PORT ANGELES — A Port Angeles was airlifted to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle after crashing his motorcycle on U.S. Highway 101 about four miles east of Sequim on Monday.

Davey J. Sanders Jr., 43, was eastbound on Highway 101 near Woods Road (MIlepost 271) at about 4 p.m. when he hit the brakes on his gray 1995 Honda VF750 motorcycle after failing to note a pickup track that was slowing and pulling into the left turn lane, the State Patrol said.

Sanders “went left around the pickup and laid down the motorcycle, sliding across the westbound lanes” before stopping on the highway’s westbound shoulder, the Patrol’s accident report said.

There was no condition report on Sanders immediately available from Harborview.