-Messenger photo by Bill Shea
One man was seriously injured when he was thrown from this motorcycle during a crash late Thursday afternoon on Nelson Avenue in Webster County. The crash happened at 4:50 p.m. on Nelson Avenue between 255th Street and Woodman Hollow Road near the top of Kalo Hill. Deputy Sheriff Tyler Holbrook said the motorcycle was southbound on Nelson Avenue and tried to pass a line of slower moving vehicles. While trying to pass, the motorcycle hit the side of a southbound pickup, he said. The motorcycle went off the east side of the road and its driver was thrown. He apparently hit a sign, while the motorcycle ended up by some nearby trees. The motorcyclist was taken by ambulance to the Otho fire station, where he was picked up by a Life Flight helicopter. The driver of the pickup was unhurt. Firefighters from Otho, along with an ambulance from the Fort Dodge Fire Department, responded.

-Messenger photo by Bill Shea
A Life Fight helicopter comes in for a landing Thursday evening at the Otho fire station to pick up a man who was seriously injured in a motorcycle accident on Nelson Avenue. It was not immediately clear which hospital the man was airlifted to.