Emergency responders tend to a motorcyclist who sustained leg injuries in a wreck in Sequim on Tuesday. (Erin Hawkins/Olympic Peninsula News Group)

Emergency responders tend to a motorcyclist who sustained leg injuries in a wreck in Sequim on Tuesday. (Erin Hawkins/Olympic Peninsula News Group)

Two-vehicle collision leaves man injured in Sequim

SEQUIM — A motorcyclist was to be airlifted to Harborview Medical Center on Tuesday after he was injured in a collision with a truck.

The wreck occurred a little before 4 p.m. when a motorcyclist going eastbound on West Washington Street was hit by a driver in a white Ford truck coming across onto 14th Avenue in Sequim.

Sequim Police said the man driving the truck did not see the motorcyclist when the two vehicles collided.

Emergency responders tended to the motorcyclist, who sustained leg injuries. The man driving the truck was uninjured.

Sequim Police said no drugs or alcohol were involved. The motorcyclist was wearing a helmet and the truck driver was wearing a seat belt.

Information on the identities of the two men involved and any possible charges was not immediately available Tuesday evening.

More information will be posted here as it becomes available.

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Erin Hawkins is a reporter with the Olympic Peninsula News Group, which is composed of Sound Publishing newspapers Peninsula Daily News, Sequim Gazette and Forks Forum. Reach her at ehawkins@sequimgazette.com.

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