A driver has been arrested on suspicion of drug-driving after a motorcyclist was left with serious injuries in a crash between a motorbike and a pick-up truck.

The collision was reported on Mannamead Road, close to the Esso garage, at around 12.40pm yesterday, October 23. Emergency services including police, paramedics, and the fire service, were called and the road was closed as an investigation was carried out.

The incident involved a black Ford Ranger and a black Kawasaki motorcycle. The rider of the motorcycle, a man aged in his 50s, suffered serious injuries and was taken to hospital.

A man aged in his 30s from the Plymouth area has been arrested on suspicion of driving while unfit through drugs, and causing serious injury by careless driving. He has been released on police bail wh

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