A motorcyclist from New Jersey was hospitalized with critical injuries on August 16, following a Route 1, Wiscasset collision with a car whose driver, a Damariscotta man, was also hurt, police said.

The approximately 21-year-old man from Frenchtown, N.J. was taken by helicopter to Central Maine Medical Center in Lewiston, then on to Maine Medical Center in Portland by ambulance, Reserve Officer Robert McFetridge of the Wiscasset Police Department said Saturday afternoon. The accident happened at about 8:28 a.m., leading to two hours of both northbound and southbound Route 1 traffic being rerouted to Old Bath Road.

The accident remained under investigation, but the early information indicated that the southbound, 1975 BMW motorcycle crossed into the northbound lane for an unknown reason and struck the car, a 2003 Hyundai Accent, McFetridge said.

A Wiscasset ambulance took the car’s driver, a 29-year-old Damariscotta man, to Miles Memorial Hospital in Damariscotta, the officer said; the man’s injuries did not appear to be life-threatening, McFetridge said.

Names were not being released yet. No one else was in the car or on the motorcycle.

The Damariscotta man was allegedly driving under a license that was suspended for reasons not related to driving, known as an administrative suspension, McFetridge said. “I’m not considering it to be a factor in the accident,” he said.

Wiscasset police, the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Department and Wiscasset Ambulance Service responded to Saturday’s crash. The sheriff’s department was reconstructing it. The Wiscasset Police Department is the investigating agency, McFetridge said.