A 57-year-old Ringgold, Ga., man is dead after he reportedly led police on a chase overnight from Collegedale to Bradley County.
According to the Tennessee Highway Patrol, James Michael McAllister was riding a 2004 Honda VT1 motorcycle when a Collegedale Police Department officer clocked McAllister doing 80 in a 45 mph zone just after midnight and attempted to make a traffic stop when the motorcyclist sped away.
State trooper Curtis Walker wrote in his report that McAllister fled north on U.S. Highway 11 at about 12:15 a.m.
McAllister went continued a little over a mile into Bradley County where he turned onto Bancroft Road.
Reaching a right hand curve, Walker said McAllister went off the left side of the road, over a gravel driveway and into a ditch where the motorcycle hit a culvert.