Motorcycle rider loses leg after crash at Toronto Motorsport Park

Local paramedics say that a motorcycle rider lost one leg and had to have another amputated below the knee after a single-vehicle collision at a racing track near Cayuga, Ontario on Friday night.

It happened at around 9 p.m. at the Toronto Motorsport Park, which is located south of Cayuga, Ont.

Ontario Provincial Police say that the 27-year-old man from Whitby was taken to a Hamilton-area hospital where he remains. Haldimand County’s head of emergency services said the victim required an Ornge airlift.

The circumstances that led to the crash are not immediately clear.