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Dirt Bike Rider Badly Injured In Crash While Allegedly Performing A 'Wheelie' Dirt Bike Rider Badly Injured In Crash While Allegedly Performing A 'Wheelie'
Dirt Bike Rider Badly Injured In Crash While Allegedly Performing A 'Wheelie' A New Haven dirt-bike rider is in apparent paralysis following a motor vehicle accident on Monday, Sept. 14, just before midnight. The man, who has not been publicly identified, was allegedly riding without the bike’s headlight on and doing a wheelie when the collision happened, New Haven Police said. The crash occurred on Canal Street near Foote Street in the Dixwell neighborhood of New Haven. The 27-year-old dirt bike rider was going southbound on Canal Street when an oncoming northbound motorist in a sedan “started a left turn maneuver” onto Foote, police said. They collided in the inter…

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by Kristin Palpini