Dirt biker youth badly hurt in crash: Lambton OPP

A youth dirt biker was badly hurt in a Plympton-Wyoming crash, Lambton OPP say, the latest in a series of collisions involving teens and young adults on Southwestern Ontario roads this summer.

Police and paramedics were called after a dirt bike and passenger vehicle collided on Confederation Line near Fairweather Road about 6:15 pm Wednesday, police said in a release Thursday morning.

The rider, a youth whose name and age were not released, suffered with life-threatening injuries and was taken to hospital, where their condition was described as stable Thursday, police said.

The crash closed Confederation Line, between Plowing Match and Fairweather roads, for almost five hours, said police, who are still investigating.

The crash comes after two men in their 20sfrom Highgate and Ridgetown, were killed when a pickup went off Teetzel Line between Kenesserie and Tower roads and struck a tree in Highgate early Monday, Chatham-Kent police said.

Authorities did not name the two victims, but they were identified in social media posts as Tom Wilkie and Kyle Anderson.

Seven other young people have been killed on the region’s roadsthis summer, including two 17-year-old boys who died after a two-vehicle collision Aug. 19 at a rural intersection north of London.

Earlier in August, a Mount Pleasant boy, 16, and a Brantford girl, 18, died when a vehicle left a rural road southeast of Woodstock, struck a line of trees and rolled. Five others were hurt. All the teens attended the same Brantford high school.

In May, two women, aged 23 and 24, and a 24-year-old man, died when a tanker truck and vehicle collided in Wallaceburg in Chatham-Kentpolice said.

With files from Postmedia

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