Motorcycle crash near Ottawa sends rider to the hospital

With so many motorcycles out this past weekend, there was bound to be accidents.

Sixty-four-year-old Thomas Beeding of Wilmington was on Dee Bennett Road just west of Ottawa Sunday afternoon when he tried to brake for a stopped car. Beeding ended up laying his bike down and skidding into an intersection. He was taken to OSF St. Elizabeth Medical Center in Ottawa.

Nobody else was hurt in the crash.