Odessa – This afternoon, at approximately 3:50 pm, New Castle County Paramedics were dispatched to assist Odessa Fire Company at Northbound DuPont Parkway and Gilbert Drive, for a motorcycle crash, according to Paramedic Senior Corporal David J. McKinney, Jr.
McKinney said arriving County Paramedics found the patient in the care of Emergency Medical Technicians from Odessa Fire Company. The patient was the lone occupant and operator of a motorcycle when he laid his bike down and was separated at the time of the crash.
The patient was wearing a helmet. He was treated on scene for body-wide abrasions and lacerations. He was transported to the Emergency Department at Christiana Hospital on board an ambulance from the Odessa Fire Company, accompanied by a New Castle County Paramedic. The patient was stable at the time of transport.
State Troopers were on scene and are investigating the crash.