A local man is undergoing treatment following an accident that occurred on Tuesday morning involving a motorcycle on Highway 96, in the north end of Jasper County.
Sgt. Shana Clark of the Texas Department of Public Safety said the crash occurred when a Harley Davidson Motorcycle, that was traveling south on Highway 96 at what is commonly known as "Pipeline Hill", for some unknown reason left the road and turned over on the side of the highway, about a mile north of Recreational Road 255.
The driver of the motorcycle, Michael Stratton, 38, of Jasper, was treated at the scene and then transported by ambulance to Jasper Memorial Hospital where he was, at last word, still undergoing treatment for multiple scrapes and cuts.