Reno Co EMS responding to a motorcycle accident at US 50 and McNew Road around 7:15 Sunday morning.
The Sheriffs Department says 60 year old Chester R. Bernhardt, of Arkansas City, was traveling north bound on US 50 in the construction zone south of Blanchard when he failed to negotiate a curve in the road where north bound traffic crosses over where the new highway is being built.
Bernhardt struck a KDOT Road Closed barricade which knocked him off the bike. Bernhardt, who wasn’t wearing a helmet, suffered lacerations to the head and arms. He was transported to Hutch Regional with non-life threatening injuries. The investigation is ongoing.