UPDATE: Stolen motorcycle crash claims driver
By DEUCE NIVEN
tribdeuce@tabor-loris.com
UPDATE
Investigators have determined the motorcycle involved in a deadly crash in Tabor City on Saturday was one reported stolen from Fort Bragg in July, Maj. Russell Conway of the Tabor City Police Department said.
That motorcycle was a 2020 Suzuki GSX R-600, police have determined, not a different make and model as they believed Saturday, Conway said.
Original post
A single-vehicle motorcycle crash claimed the life of a Tabor City man Saturday evening.
Austin Zachary Graham, 28, died after the 2003 Suzuki GSX 1300 he was operating went out of control on Jarvis Street shortly after 8 p.m., Maj. Russell Conway of the Tabor City Police Department said.
Graham has recently lived in a Green Sea Road apartment, but Conway said he did not know a current address for him.
Graham was operating the motorcycle on 2nd Street when it crashed at the corner of Jarvis Street, a short residential street on Tabor City’s west side, Conner said. The motorcycle went off the road to the right, then went through a flower bed, where Graham was ejected from the vehicle before it crashed into a tree.
Look for more on this story in this week’s Tabor-Loris Tribune in print and online.
An error in the location of the crash and the model of the motorcycle has been corrected.
