Motorcycle runs off I-635, hits barrier wall

A motorcyclist who was northbound on I-635 at State Avenue at 5:05 p.m. Saturday, April 6, left the roadway at a high rate of speed, according to a Kansas Highway Patrol trooper’s report.

According to the trooper’s report, the Yamaha motorcycle made an unsafe lane change, went off the roadway to the left and collided with the barrier wall.

The driver, a 37-year-old Kansas City, Kansas, man, was taken to a hospital with a suspected minor injury, the trooper’s report stated. He was wearing a helmet.