I heard on a local forum that there was a fatality up on Blood Mountain yesterday. I heard there were three accidents one was a fatality all before noon. One of the other accidents was confirmed, she ran wide through a turn and bailed off the bike, bike landed 12' down the side of the mountain area, she just got a few bumps and bruises. She said she got target fixation looking at the cruisers going the other way. (doesn't sound like traget fixation, just a distraction and inexpereince). This was her first time in the mountains as well... Aside from that her husband went down last year on his first trip to the mountains too...
Then I found this
http://www.gainesvilletimes.com/news/article/5433/
R.I.P.
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Alpharetta motorcyclist dies in wreck
From staff reports
POSTED May 4, 2008 10.33 p.m.
John Ante, 37, of Grovehurst Drive in Alpharetta died shortly after 11 a.m. Sunday when a car collided with the motorcycle he was driving on U.S. 19.
A car turned in front of Ante two miles north of Dahlonega, and he was thrown from the bike, according to the Georgia State Patrol.
The patrol responded at 11:17 a.m. and pronounced Ante dead at the scene. He was taken to Chestatee Regional Hospital in Dahlonega. The passengers of the vehicle were not injured.
The Georgia State Patrol is still investigating the accident.
Then I found this
http://www.gainesvilletimes.com/news/article/5433/
R.I.P.
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Alpharetta motorcyclist dies in wreck
From staff reports
POSTED May 4, 2008 10.33 p.m.
John Ante, 37, of Grovehurst Drive in Alpharetta died shortly after 11 a.m. Sunday when a car collided with the motorcycle he was driving on U.S. 19.
A car turned in front of Ante two miles north of Dahlonega, and he was thrown from the bike, according to the Georgia State Patrol.
The patrol responded at 11:17 a.m. and pronounced Ante dead at the scene. He was taken to Chestatee Regional Hospital in Dahlonega. The passengers of the vehicle were not injured.
The Georgia State Patrol is still investigating the accident.
