Falck San Diego is the new ambulance provider for San Diego. Photo by Chris StoneAn ambulance in San Diego. (File photo by Chris Stone/Times of San Diego)

A bicyclist was seriously injured Friday when he collided with a trolley downtown east of the Santa Fe Depot.

The accident took place in the 100 block of West C Street shortly before 9:30 a.m. Friday, according to the San Diego Police Department.

Paramedics took the victim, believed to be about 50 years old, to UCSD Medical Center in Hillcrest.

The bicyclist was being treated for a compound leg fracture, Officer David O’Brien said.

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