A motorcyclist from Richmond escaped serious injury after two Good Samaritans in West Vancouver physically lifted up an SUV, which she was pinned under Thursday evening.
The accident happened just after 7 p.m., as three motorcyclists in their 20s were driving around the off-ramp from the Lions Gate Bridge, heading to West Vancouver.
A woman on a Kawasaki motorcycle lost control on the curve, hit the centre median and was thrown off into oncoming traffic, where she bounced off a car before the driver of a Chevy SUV stopped in time to avoid running over her.
As the woman lay pinned beneath the front undercarriage of the vehicle, two men raced over and physically lifted it off her, said Acting Sgt. Trish Aylett of the West Vancouver Police Department.
The woman was taken to Lions Gate Hospital with non life-threatening injuries.
Aylett said it isn't known what caused the woman to lose control of her motorcycle. Inexperience may have been a factor, she said. No tickets were issued to any of the drivers.
The other two motorcycle riders were unharmed.
