Two injured in Wharton Township motorcycle accident
WHARTON TWP. — A Greene County couple was flown to a hospital with injuries they sustained when the motorcycle they were riding wrecked on Route 40 west.
Neither the 48-year-old male driver, who suffered a head injury, nor his wife, both of Nemacolin, were wearing helmets when the accident occurred less than a quarter mile east of the Fort Necessity National Battlefield just before 2:30 p.m. Friday, state police said.
A tire on a triaxle dump truck traveling in front the bike blew out, but Trooper Timothy Jamieson said he didn’t believe it caused the accident.