One man dies in motorcycle wreck
Published Monday, May 5, 2008
NATCHEZ — Adams County Sheriff’s Deputies responded to a motorcycle accident late Saturday night in which there was one fatality.
Deputy Maj. Jody Waldrop said Bobby P. Hawthorne, 54, of Harrisonburg, La., was pronounced dead at the scene.
Waldrop said Hawthorne was traveling on Liberty Road, near the Second Creek Bridge, when his motorcycle left the road, striking an embankment and then a tree.
No other vehicles were involved in the accident.
Adams County Coroner James Lee said Hawthorne’s death was caused by head and neck trauma.
“It’s a terrible tragedy,” he said.
Lee said Hawthorne’s autopsy was being conducted on Sunday afternoon in Jackson.
Waldrop said the while the cause of the accident was unknown investigators were continuing to interview witnesses from the scene.
Waldrop said a toxicology screening would be conducted.