Emergency personnel responded shortly after 3:05 p.m. Thursday to a motorcycle crash with injury on the Route 158 ramp to Millstadt from southbound Route 3 in Columbia.

An ARCH Air Medical Services helicopter was initially requested but was canceled and the male motorcyclist was being transported by ambulance to Mercy Hospital South in St. Louis County.

Traffic was held up briefly near the crash site as first responders dealt with the patient.

Police said the motorcyclist 66-year-old Larry Whaley of Columbia, who was riding a Harley-Davidson motorcycle. 

A passerby stopped a Columbia police officer to tell him about the crash after they saw the driver lying in the road.