Charges may be laid against four time Olympic medalist Denny Morrison following a serious motorcycle crash in Calgary Thursday night.

Sources have confirmed to 660News the speedskater was the driver of a bike that collided with a Toyota Corolla at Crowchild Trail and 32nd Avenue in the Northwest.

Morrison, 29, was initially rushed to hospital with serious injuries, suffering a fracture to his femur. He will have to undergo surgery to have a metal rod inserted into his leg.

Calgary Police said the motorcycle was travelling fast as it approached the intersection and a car was making a turn onto the highway through a yellow light.

Calling the crash “unbelievable’, Paul Stacey, with the Calgary Police Service Traffic Division, said the impact was so violent that it flipped the car.

“I don’t know how at that kind of a speed and that kind of a severe impact that he survived it, but he is one lucky man,” Stacey said.

Stacey said the driver of the bike did everything he could – so much that he left 30 feet of skid marks on the road.

The two women in the flipped car escaped without serious injury.

Traffic investigators are looking into the case.