File photo of a Woodstock police cruiser. (Photo by Miranda Chant, Blackburn News.)File photo of a Woodstock police cruiser. (Photo by Miranda Chant, Blackburn News.)
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Careless driving charges laid in crash that seriously injured motorcyclist

Two Woodstock men have been charged in a September crash that left a teenaged motorcyclist with serious injuries.

Emergency crews were called to the collision on Vansittart Avenue and Ridgewood Drive in Woodstock just before 8 a.m. on September 5. An SUV had hit a motorcycle, throwing the 17-year-old rider off the bike.

The motorcyclist was taken to hospital with serious, but non-life threatening injuries.

On Monday, Woodstock police announced charges had been laid against two people following a more than month long investigation.

An 82-year-old man and a 66-year-old man, both from Woodstock, have been charged with one count each of careless driving.

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