PICKUP DRIVER CHARGED AFTER COLLISION WITH BIKER ON HWY. 118

BRACEBRIDGE — A truck driver has been charged after a collision with a motorcycle rider here Saturday morning.

Police say that on May 13, at 9:50 a.m., they responded to a collision between the injured motorcyclist and the other driver on Highway 118 near Ashley Lane in Bracebridge.

The biker, a 37-year-old from Bracebridge, was transported to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.

Police charged the pickup operator, a 50-year-old Bracebridge resident, under the Provincial Offences Act. Police didn’t say who or what charge he faces.

May is Motorcycle Safety Awareness Month.