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Toledoan performing wheelie on dirt bike seriously injured after striking vehicle

Police say the man failed to stop at at stop sign in a south Toledo neighborhood.
Credit: WTOL 11

TOLEDO, Ohio — A 25-year-old Toledo man was taken to the hospital after the dirt bike he was riding struck a car in south Toledo on Saturday morning.

Toledo police say Seth Perkins was riding his dirt bike east on Nelson Avenue around 11:36 a.m. when he failed to stop at a stop sign at Nelson and Brighton Avenue and hit a car that was being driven north on Brighton.

Police say Perkins was “performing a wheelie” at the time of the crash. 

Perkins suffered serious but non-life-threatening injuries. The driver of the other vehicle, a 24-year-old Toledo woman was uninjured. 

Perkins was cited for reckless operation.

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