Update: Man stable after crash

COLUMBUS, Ind. (WISH) - A motorcyclist is in stable condition as of 3 p.m. Saturday after he was flown by Statflight air ambulance to an Indianapolis hospital after a crash on Interstate 65, south of Taylorsville, Friday afternoon.

Witnesses say a van cut into traffic too close to his motorcycle near the 72-mile marker of Interstate 65 in Bartholomew County. 

Northbound traffic was blocked Friday afternoon on I-65 for nearly an hour. Traffic was diverted during the closure through a nearby rest park.

Chadrick Summers, 21, was not wearing a helmet and was thrown from his motorcycle but was alert and conscious after the crash, according to the Bartholomew County Sheriff's Department.  He sustained head injuries and road rash. 

Accident investigators said a group of motorcyclists were riding in the left lane when Thomas Wright, 25, Georgia, passed them in the right lane, then cut into the left lane just ahead of the motorcycles, trying to pass a slower moving vehicle in front of him in the right lane. 

The sheriff's department said Summers will be cited for driving while suspended, and operating a motorcycle without a motorcycle endorsement.