Motorcyclist seriously injured in Syracuse crash

A motorcyclist was seriously injured in Syracuse Saturday, adding another severe crash to a month that has already brought multiple serious motorcycle wrecks across Onondaga County. The latest injury came as local roads continued to show the same pattern of motorcycle collisions in Syracuse, Cicero and Mattydale.

One of the clearest examples came July 15, when Route 481 South in Cicero was closed for miles after a serious motorcycle crash. New York State Police said the wreck happened around 9:07 a.m. on Interstate 481 South, where a motorcycle struck the back of a slowing SUV. The rider was critically injured, and traffic on the southbound route was backed up through the busy Cicero corridor.

The county saw another severe crash in Syracuse in June, when a 34-year-old man was critically injured in a motorcycle wreck and taken to Upstate University Hospital. Hospital staff listed him in critical but stable condition. In July, deputies also reported a man was critically injured in Mattydale in a crash at about 11:35 a.m. at East Molloy Road and Brown Avenue.

Taken together, the latest Syracuse injury and the earlier crashes show a recurring safety problem for motorcycle riders moving through and around the city. The incidents have touched Interstate 481 South, a major suburban commuter route in Cicero, as well as city streets in Syracuse and the East Molloy Road corridor in Mattydale. That mix of locations has put several different parts of Onondaga County in the spotlight for motorcycle safety in a single month.