LAKE CRYSTAL — One person was critically injured and his passenger seriously injured in a motorcycle crash Saturday afternoon near Lake Crystal.
Blue Earth County sheriff’s deputies responded to a crash on County Road 6, near County Road 102, shortly after 3 p.m.
Douglas Pelzel, 75, of Sleepy Eye, was traveling north on County Road 6 on a 1996 Harley Davidson motorcycle with 60-year-old Denise Ann Walter, also of Sleepy Eye, as the passenger.
It appears Douglas Pelzel lost control of the motorcycle and drove off the right side of the roadway, deputies said.
Pelzel was airlifted with critical injuries and Walter was transported from the scene by ambulance with serious injuries. Neither was wearing a helmet.