A 50-YEAR-OLD Belper motorcyclist had to be airlifted to hospital after suffering serious injuries in a road accident.
The rider was in collision with a lorry and a BMW car on the Via Gellia Road, near Cromford.
Police were called to the accident at 4pm yesterday and the road was shut from Cromford to Clatterway, near Bonsall, until 10pm last night while collision investigators examined the scene and the vehicles were recovered.
The air ambulance took both the motorcyclist and the driver of the BMW to the Queen's Medical Centre in Nottingham.
The rider had suffered head injuries and a suspected collapsed lung and was, this morning, in the high dependency unit, a police spokesman said.
The driver of the BMW, who is 52 and from Matlock, did not suffer any serious injuries.
Anyone who witnessed the accident is asked to call police on 101.
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