Crash involving motorcycle on Bluff Road

Emergency personnel responded shortly after 11:45 a.m. Sunday to a crash involving a motorcycle on Bluff Road at Hanover Road between Columbia and Waterloo.

Monroe County EMS was requested to the scene. The Monroe County Sheriff’s Department handled the crash. Police said a van cut in front of the motorcycle without colliding with it, causing the motorcycle to crash.

The driver of the 2008 Chevrolet 3500, 90-year-old Neil Adams of Edwardsville, was cited for failure to yield at an intersection.

The driver of the Harley-Davidson motorcycle, 39-year-old Gabriel Wichman of St. Louis, was transported by ambulance to Mercy Hospital South in St. Louis County for treatment of unspecified injuries.

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