Accident Details Released on Motorcycle Wreck Wednesday on GA 328

Details are out on a motorcycle accident Wednesday that left a Franklin County man injured in Stephens County.

It occurred just before 3:30 p.m. Wednesday on Georgia Highway 328 East of Tower Road.

According to the Toccoa post of the Georgia State Patrol, 77-year-old Carlton Jackson of Lavonia was traveling east on Highway 328 on a 2001 Suzuki motorcycle negotiating a curve when he traveled off of the south shoulder of the roadway.

The report stated the motorcycle struck a ditch with its undercarriage and after initial impact, the motorcycle overturned onto its left side.

In the report, the trooper stated that Jackson did not remember what happened, but a witness said that the motorcycle just ran off of the roadway.

The Georgia State Patrol said Jackson was taken by EMS Air Life to Northeast Georgia Medical Center with unspecified injuries.