MARYVILLE, Tenn. - A motorcycle crash on U.S. 129 has killed a suburban Atlanta man.
The Knoxville News Sentinel cited a Blount County Sheriff's document in reporting 46-year-old Patrick Brian Noll of Dallas, Ga., died Saturday night on a curvy stretch of the Smoky Mountains road, nicknamed "The Dragon."
The police report stated Noll passed a slower bike coming of a right-hand curve. As he began slowing for a left-hand curve, the rear wheel locked, sending the motorcycle into a straight-line skid. The machine laid over on its right side, throwing Noll into a large tree and then down an embankment. He was wearing a regulation helmet.
Noll was taken the Blount Memorial Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.