By Sharyn L. Decker
Lewis County Sirens news reporter
A Winlock man is in satisfactory condition this morning after a motorcycle wreck yesterday on a logging road in the Winlock area.
Morris A. Wideman, 46, was thrown from his motorbike into a ditch and sustained what the sheriff’s office described as severe injuries.
Aid and deputies were called about 1 p.m. to the crash which happened along the 3000 line off the end of Jones Road, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office.
Wideman and his younger brother were out riding together, the sheriff’s office reported.
It happened about a mile beyond a locked gate, which slowed Winlock firefighters in getting to him, according to Lewis County Fire District 15 Lt. Kevin Anderson. They cut it with a saw, which took at least a half hour, he said.
“Fighting through the locked gate was the hardest part of the whole thing,” Anderson said this morning.
Anderson said he believed the injured man had been wearing a helmet and that he was riding an old 1970s-looking trail bike.
With help from medics from South County EMS, Wideman was airlifted from Winlock’s elementary school to Southwest Washington Medical Center in Vancouver, Wash.
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