Motorcycle, Car Collide on Alexandria Pike, Injuries to Rider are Severe

A crash between a motorcyclist and a car led to the closure of Alexandria Pike near DEP's on Friday around 6:00 p.m. as the sun was beginning to set.

According to police reports, the man riding the motorcycle was heading north on Alexandria Pike toward I-471, when the driver of a vehicle was turning left out of the entrance from DEPs, where they collided.

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Emergency responders from multiple cities, including Southgate and Fort Thomas were on scene, as well as good samaritans who witnessed the crash.

A witness told Fort Thomas Matters that she saw the motorcycle go ten feet in the air after the collision and that she never saw him move from the roadway.

The man, in his seventies from Highland Heights, attends church in Fort Thomas.


He was taken to University of Cincinnati hospital, where doctors began to repair several injuries, including cervical and thoracic spine injuries, a broken pelvis, multiple broken ribs, a perforated lung, fractured kneecap. There were no head injuries, but he will have a long road to recovery. He is currently being kept in the Intensive Care Unit.

Fort Thomas Matters will update this further as more information is known.

PHOTO: Provide, which overlooks US-27 (Alexandria Pike). Reader submitted, 6:30 p.m. Friday, January 26.