Motorcyclist injured in Clarendon accident

Posted 3 September 2013 at 12:00 am

Press release, Orleans County Sheriff’s Department

CLARENDON – A motorcyclist was injured this morning in a one-vehicle crash in Clarendon.

The incident occurred shortly after 9:30 a.m. in the 4600 block of Holley-Byron Road (State Route 237) in the town of Clarendon. James A. Cox, 61, was operating 1996 Harley Davidson and failed to negotiate a curve.

Cox ran off the east side of the roadway and laid the bike down in an open field. He was transported by Clarendon Fire Department Ambulance to Strong Memorial Hospital in Rochester with non-life threatening injuries.

The incident was investigated by Sergeant D.W. Covis.