Motorcycle wreck kills one, injures one

By Katie Stallcup

Published: July 20, 2008

A motorcyclist died after being thrown more than 270 feet in a Sunday night wreck with a sedan at the intersection of Lee Road 188 and Lee Road 4 in Loachapoka, Lee County Coroner Bill Harris said.

The rider’s 1998 Suzuki 1000 flew about 15 feet into a tree after it collided with a sedan at approximately 8 p.m., Harris said.

The man died from multiple blunt force injuries, he said.

“It was a horrific impact,” Harris said. “It had to have been to throw him that far.”

The driver of a Saturn sedan was transported by ambulance to East Alabama Medical Center, but her injuries did not appear to be life-threatening, he said.

Harris identified the man as Toby Curtis Wagner, 31, of a rural address in Auburn.

The woman also had a rural Auburn address, Harris said.

“It looks like about a head-on collision,” he said. “We still don’t know the details yet. The (Alabama State) Troopers have traffic… investigators finding out what happened.”

A spokeswoman for the Alabama State Troopers said Sunday night she couldn’t give details, as the trooper working the wreck was still at the scene.

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