Two people thrown from motorcycle after crashing into streetcar platform

Two people thrown from motorcycle after crashing into streetcar platform

Two people in their 30s were taken to hospital, one of them with life-threatening injuries, after a motorcycle struck a streetcar platform along St. Clair Avenue early Friday morning.

Police say that a man and a woman were riding on a motorcycle near St. Clair Avenue and Bathurst Street at around 2:25 a.m. when they made contact with the streetcar platform.

As a result, both the man and the woman were thrown from the bike.

Paramedics say that the woman was taken to a trauma centre in life-threatening condition while the man was transported to a local hospital in serious but non-life threatening condition.

Police say that there is no indication that alcohol was a factor in the collision.