Crash with serious injury backs up traffic in SW Cedar Rapids

CEDAR RAPIDS — A motorcyclist was severely injured in a crash that caused a traffic backup Monday afternoon in southwest Cedar Rapids.

The motorcyclist was taken to a hospital with potentially life-threatening injuries, according to Cedar Rapids police.

The crash happened at Third Street SW and Wilson Avenue SW — close to Wilson Middle School — at about 1:20 p.m., police said. The motorcyclist had been traveling east on Wilson Avenue and crashed into a vehicle traveling north on Third Street SW. The driver of the other vehicle was not injured.

Police asked drivers Monday afternoon to avoid using Wilson Avenue between Bowling Street SW and Interstate 380 until the scene was cleared.

Neither the motorcyclist nor the driver of the other vehicle were identified by police.

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