Montgomery Village man seriously injured in motorcycle collision Sunday in Germantown

A motorcycle rider was seriously injured after his bike sideswiped a turning car in Germantown on Sunday.

 Police and emergency workers were dispatched to a collision at Great Seneca Highway and Richter Farm Road at around 1 p.m. Sunday, said Montgomery County Police Officer Howard Hersh, who is with the department’s communications division.

 Hersh said a motorcycle travelling south on Great Seneca Highway failed to stop at a red light at Richter Farm Road.

 As a result, the bike struck the right passenger side of a 2008 Lexus that was turning left onto west Richter Farm Road from north Great Seneca Highway, Hersh said.

 The motorcyclist, Daniel Mopkins, 28, of Montgomery Village, was ejected from the bike and was flown to the Shock Trauma unit at University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore, Hersh said.

 The driver of the Lexus, Tam Pham, of Gaithersburg, was not hospitalized, Hersh said.