Rider survives motorcycle crash on Old Glenn Highway

PALMER — A motorcycle rider survived a single-vehicle crash on the Old Glenn Highway that shut the road down Friday afternoon.

The wreck was reported at around 4 p.m. on a curve near Mile 12 of the highway. Motorists report the road had reopened by 6:30 p.m., June 14.

Alaska State Troopers Bureau of Highway Patrol say investigation at the scene June 14 determined Kirk Leonard Jacobsen, 47, passing other southbound motorists when he failed to negotiate his 1999 Harley-Davidson motorcycle around a left-hand curve and crashed.

Jacobsen’s motorcycle drove down the right shoulder of the road, through the ditch and into some bushes lining the ATV trail where it flipped, pinning him beneath, according to a trooper dispatch.

Medics called for the Life Med air ambulance not long after arriving on scene. By 4:34 p.m., Jacobsen was loaded into the helicopter and on his way to Alaska Regional Hospital in Anchorage.

Troopers say he was not wearing a helmet and was treated for non-life-threatening injuries.