Authorities were unable to provide updates on the conditions of the injured crash victims.
Updates story published at 10:13 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 24.
SOUTH HADLEY — Two people were hospitalized after a speeding motorcycle crashed into a car on Route 202 just before 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, according to authorities, who have not released any information about the crash victims or the extent of their injuries.
Both the motorcyclist and the driver of the car were injured and taken to a local hospital for treatment, a South Hadley Fire Department District 1 official said early Wednesday morning. He had no updates on their conditions.
A ranking South Hadley police official did not immediately respond to a phone message, and a dispatcher with no information about the crash said on-duty police officers were unavailable to discuss the incident.
A roughly 1,000-foot stretch of Route 202 between Columbia Street and Brigham Road was closed for several hours as a team of Massachusetts State Police investigators reconstructed the high-speed crash. The state police Collision Analysis & Reconstruction Section is typically dispatched to probe serious or fatal crashes.
Granby police said a patrol officer first spotted the speeding motorcycle at about 5:22 p.m. Tuesday in the southbound lane of Route 202, about a half-mile southwest of Pleasant Street. The officer activated the lights and siren on his cruiser and turned around to pursue the motorcycle, which continued toward South Hadley "at a very high rate of speed," police said.
A supervising officer immediately called off the pursuit, and the patrol officer complied with the order, police said.
The motorcycle continued into South Hadley and crashed about a mile from the Granby town line, police said. The motorcycle reached speeds ranging from 70 mph to 100 mph, according to authorities.
In a separate incident, a Palmer man was arrested and charged with drunken driving after crashing a motorcycle at the Route 202 Rotary in South Hadley on Sept. 11.
John Paul Cebula, 61, of Three Rivers, was cited for a marked lanes violation and operating under the influence of alcohol, according to South Hadley police. Cebula sustained minor injuries in the crash, police said.
Report by CBS 3 Springfield, media partner of The Republican/MassLive.com:
MAP showing approximate location of where a Granby police officer first spotted a speeding motorcycle on Route 202 headed toward South Hadley: