Shortly before 10 a.m. Friday, a motorcycle traveling northwest in the 1800 block of NE Loop 286 was sturck by an SUV attempting to cross the roadway from the crossover into a trailer park, according to an investigator on scene.
The driver of the motorcycle was flown to Parkland Hospital in Dallas by helicopter, Paris Police Department spokesman Curtis Garrett said. The driver of the SUV was not injured, Garrett added.
The nanes of the drivers were unavailable yet, Garrett said.
The extent of the motorcyclist’s injuries also was not known.
Charles Richards Charles Richards moved to Paris in 2004 after retiring from a 40-year career in journalism – the last 26 years as a news writer and sports writer with The Associated Press in Dallas and Washington, D.C. In mid-2004, The Paris News coaxed him out of retirement, and he began covering the police, court and regional beat for The Paris News. Then in early 2005, he was switched to coverage of a sharply divided Paris City Council. He was appointed by the City Council in 2006 to the 12-member City Charter Review Commission, which extensively rewrote the outmoded document. His writing awards include two first-place awards in statewide competition for feature writing. The most recent was his 2005 story on a Paris doctor’s startling use of leeches in a successful attempt to re-attach a man’s severed ear. Over his career, Richards’ interview subjects include Alabama Gov. George Wallace, President Bill Clinton, President George W. Bush, David Koresh, Arnold Palmer, Muhammad Ali and numerous other political and sports figures. He is an alumnus of Texas Tech, where he was editor of the school newspaper. He lives in Paris with his wife, Barbara, who is retired after 30 years as a teacher and high school counselor.
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