A 62-year-old Flowery Branch man remained in jail at mid-morning Wednesday, charged with causing a Friendship Road accident Monday morning that left a motorcyclist with serious injuries.
The three-vehicle accident occurred at the Hog Mountain Road intersection, according to Hall County Sheriff’s Office spokeswoman B.J. Williams.
“The investigation at the scene determined (Biff Allen) Mossman was traveling eastbound on Friendship Road and attempted to turn left to travel north on Hog Mountain Road,” Williams said Wednesday. “As he was in the process of turning, he stopped abruptly in the middle of Friendship Road to avoid a collision with a bobtail semi-truck and stopped directly in the path of a westbound (motorcycle).”
The motorcycle collided with Mossman’s pickup and the driver, Bryce Allen Scanlon, 33, of Flowery Branch, was thrown from the bike. The motorcycle crashed into a third vehicle which was stopped in the eastbound lanes of Friendship Road.
Scanlon suffered serious injuries, including a spinal fracture. Mossman and the driver of the third vehicle were not injured.
Mossman was charged with serious injury by vehicle, reckless driving, failure to yield while turning left, obstructing highway and failure to obey traffic control device.
The eastbound lanes of Friendship Road were closed for just over an hour.