Shreveport Police Dept.

Date: Mar 10, 2008

Phone: 318/673-6932 Fax: 318/673-6933

Contact: Randy Patrick, Night-Side P.I.O.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Motorcycle wreck sends one to hospital

Shreveport Police worked a one vehicle wreck this morning on Clyde Fant shortly after midnight.

A motorcycle driven by a white male was traveling north bound in the 700 block of Clyde Fant when according to witnesses the lights on the vehicle suddenly starting "dancing" then the bike slide out from underneath the rider.

The rider, who was wearing a helmet at the time of the wreck, suffered major head wounds and was transported to LSU-HSC with life threatening injuries.

Hit and Run investigators were called to the scene.

Information can be left with crimestoppers at 673-7373 or by logging onto the crimestoppers website at www.crimestoppersshreveportcaddo.com.

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