photo by: Josie Heimsoth/Journal-World

The driver of the motorcycle is pictured after a police chase on North Second Street on Thursday, Feb. 27, 2025.

The driver of a speeding motorcycle that crashed Thursday on North Second Street, seriously injuring a woman, was arrested immediately after the incident on multiple charges.

Dillon Paul Herken, 26, of Easton, was arrested on suspicion of aggravated battery, flee and elude, possession of stolen property, unlawful vehicle registration and operating a motor vehicle without the proper license.

photo by: Kim Callahan

A police chase on North Second Street on Thursday, Feb. 27, 2025, ended in a fiery motorcycle crash.

Herken was fleeing a Kansas Highway Patrol trooper on a 2009 Yamaha Thursday around 3:15 p.m. in the 600 block of North Second Street when he crashed into the back of a Jeep Compass, as the Journal-World reported. The fiery crash is suspected to have severely injured Herken’s 27-year-old female passenger on the motorcycle. Both were thrown from the motorcycle and later taken to Stormont Vail hospital in Topeka, as the Journal-World reported. The two passengers in the Jeep, a 70-year-old driver and a 17-year-old passenger reportedly not injured, according to the Highway Patrol.

Court records indicate that Herken was due to appear, but did not show, in Douglas County District Court 15 minutes before the crash occurred in relation to a misdemeanor stalking charge.

This is a developing story and will be updated.