UPDATE: A man was seriously injured after a motorcycle accident Wednesday afternoon on N. Belt Highway in St. Joseph.

According to Sgt. Chris McBane with the St. Joseph Police Department the driver of the motorcycle, James Deyarmon, 55 of St. Joseph was taken to the hospital with what was initially reported as serious to life-threatening injuries. As of 3 p.m. McBane said the driver’s injuries were deemed non life-threatening.

McBane said Deyarmon was driving his Harley Davidson motorcycle northbound in the right-hand lane of the Belt Highway around 1 p.m. when a Pontiac G6, driven by a 71-year-old Kansas City, Kansas man, pulled out from the Anderson Ford parking lot in front of the motorcycle causing the crash.  The motorcycle driver was thrown from his vehicle.

Police shutdown the northbound lanes of the Belt Highway in the 1900 block in front of Anderson Ford for around an hour.

McBane said the case is being submitted to the prosecutor’s office.