{"id":786189,"date":"2026-05-10T08:57:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T08:57:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/786189\/"},"modified":"2026-05-10T08:57:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T08:57:18","slug":"motorcyclist-seriously-injured-after-crash-leaves-bike-dangling-from-traffic-light-near-surrey-delta-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/786189\/","title":{"rendered":"Motorcyclist seriously injured after crash leaves bike dangling from traffic light near Surrey-Delta border"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/a\/assets\/texttospeech.svg\" alt=\"Text to Speech Icon\" width=\"44\" height=\"44\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Listen to this article<\/p>\n<p>Estimated 2 minutes<\/p>\n<p>The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results.<\/p>\n<p>Police say a motorcyclist was taken to hospital with serious injuries after a B.C. crash near the Surrey-Delta border Saturday afternoon left a motorcycle dangling from a traffic light above a busy intersection.<\/p>\n<p>Delta police say officers were called just before 3 p.m. PT to the 7100-block of Scott Road at 72nd Avenue and 120th Street for a crash between a motorcycle and car.<\/p>\n<p>Police say the rider suffered serious but non-life-threatening injuries and the driver of the sedan was not injured.<\/p>\n<p>Photos and videos circulating online show the motorcycle suspended above the roadway from an overhead traffic signal pole following the crash.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"A damaged car sits in an intersection while a motorcycle hangs from an overhead traffic light.\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1778403437_848_default.jpg\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.5\" data-cy=\"image-img\"\/>Police say the motorcycle rider has sustained serious but non-life-threatening injuries and has been transported to hospital. The driver of the vehicle did not sustain any injuries. (Shane MacKichan)<\/p>\n<p>The unusual scene drew crowds of onlookers with many pulling out their phones as emergency crews tried to bring the bike down.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Never seen anything like this, like seeing a movie,&#8221; said Surrey resident William Chan, who said he came across the crash while heading to Krispy Kreme, the donut shop nearby.<\/p>\n<p>Chan said after spotting a damaged car in the middle of the intersection, he began looking for the other vehicle involved in the crash.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was looking down and then I looked up and the [motorbike] was above \u2014 kind of crazy,&#8221; he said.  <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"A motorcycle hangs from an overhead traffic signal above an intersection as emergency crews and a tow truck gather below.\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1778403438_378_default.jpg\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.7777777777777777\" data-cy=\"image-img\"\/>Crews work to remove the motorcycle dangling from an overhead traffic signal on Saturday. (Sohrab Sandhu\/CBC)<\/p>\n<p>Chan said he was stunned by how the motorcycle appeared to become tangled around the traffic signal and said he planned to stick around to watch crews remove it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJust to see how people are getting it down.\u2026 Going to be quite interesting,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n<p>Another observer, Jevon Ryan, said he can&#8217;t begin to understand how the motorcycle ended up above the intersection.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019d think it would launch to the sidewalks, to the businesses but to perfectly get up there and wrap itself around.\u2026 It\u2019s wow,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>The crash closed Scott Road between 70th Avenue and 72nd Avenue, according to the police, as crews work to remove the car and bike and clear debris from the roadway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 2 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":786190,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2147,50],"class_list":{"0":"post-786189","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-canada","9":"tag-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116549455323438696","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=786189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786189\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/786190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=786189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=786189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=786189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}