Emergency personnel responded to a motorcycle vs. SUV on Gateway Road around 12:04 p.m. to find a motorcyclist on the side of the road. It was reported on scene the male victim had lost his thumb in the crash along with a fractured leg.
The Contra Costa County Sheriff, Oakley Police Department, East Contra Costa Fire Protection District (Engine 94) and AMR were all on scene along with a CALSTAR helicopter transport who took the victim to John Muir Medical Center.
The incident closed Gateway Road for about 35-minutes as crews worked the scene.
On a side note, as I approached Cypress and Main to head to Bethel island, it was a thing of beauty to see Oakley PD waiting for AMR before clearing the intersection to lead the ambulance to the scene. It also is an eye opener of how a closed station effects response times.
Had the Bethel Island station been open, the victim would have been just a couple minutes away from a station; instead, Engine 94 came from Knightsen. When you lose a thumb and have a fractured leg, that’s additional time in pain.
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Hey Burke, just report the facts. Don’t be talking about closed stations and trying to sell a future parcel tax.
@ Voter,
Looks like the “facts” are selling a parcel tax. Burk is simply reporting them.
Once again your stupidity got the best of you. Its not the first time and won’t be the last, that much is for sure.
What a tool.
Nice pictures as usual. What caused the wreck?
Glad to see someone is putting out info, nothing in the Times or Press.
Remember to always wear underwear that you would be ok with the world seeing. I think he forgot that!
I know that you want to share the experience and the details of an accident, but you also need show some respect for the victim. Posting pixs of him wearing just underwear not cool.
You can’t tell who the victim is and I did not reveal the name. It would have required some photoshop/cropping that would have taken away from what our emergency crews deal with daily
I know more than most what first responders deal with but you must also respect the privacy of the victim. Just trying to keep you out of trouble.
The pink unmentionables may have upset mommy maybe not. It was an accident and all kinds of things happen. I know what it is like to lay flat exposing everything after EMT’s cut your clothes off with a large crowd circled around you. It happens. You get over it.
You are however, using every opportunity to sell the property tax item. Have to agree with Voter1.
You should show some respect for the victim….. You are not right taking and then publishing those pictures
Its news, it happened, it’s not like he was a peeping tom shooting through a window. You can’t even tell who the victim is. Had he been commando, then maybe there would be a problem with it but you can’t get mad at him for capturing news. I typically get annoyed with his opinion, but when he does news coverage, he is good at it and there is nothing wrong with the photos.
For those complaining, Burks photos do capture emergency personnel at work, he does not focus on the victims is what he had told us in the past from the fires he has covered. His only saving grace heree is he did not get the victims face or else i’d jump all over him too.
Burk, don’t listen to the complaints, had you not shot these, no one would have known the incident occured and why having fire houses open saves lives!
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