A Big Lake man was injured in a motorcycle crash in Stearns County Saturday. 

The sheriff’s department says at 6:36 p.m. Saturday they were dispatched to a single vehicle accident with injuries near the intersection of Co. Rd. 145 and 180th St. in Lynden Township, four miles southwest of Clearwater.

Upon arrival deputies located a male who had been thrown from the motorcycle with severe injuries. Further investigation revealed that the motorcycle had been traveling westbound on Co. Rd. 145 and failed to negotiate the southbound curve. This caused the driver, Kyle Andrew Erickson, 35, of Big Lake, to lay the bike down and enter the ditch where he then hit a road sign. Erickson was transported to the St. Cloud Hospital by Mayo Ambulance.

The Stearns County Sheriff’s Office was assisted on scene by the Wright County Sheriff’s Office, Clearwater Fire and Rescue, and Minnesota State Patrol. The cause of the crash is under investigation.