Motorcyclist last seen riding in mountains found dead down embankment, Georgia cops say
A missing motorcyclist was found dead days after crashing in the north Georgia mountains, deputies say.
Authorities were called Friday, July 21, about a missing person last seen on a motorcycle in the area of Highway 75 in the Unicoi Mountains, according to the Towns County Sheriff’s Office.
The driver was heading to Towns County from Helen when he vanished, deputies said in a news release. They arrived to find the driver and his motorcycle down an embankment around the top of a mountain.
The driver, Michael Patrick Brock, 53, of Winder, died at the scene, deputies said.
Investigators believe Brock was approaching a curve on State Route 17 when he lost control of his Ducati motorcycle, veered off the road and down the embankment, according to a preliminary report from Georgia State Patrol.
The Unicoi Mountains stretch across the Tennessee-North Carolina border and are a subrange of the Blue Ridge Mountains, according to PeakVisor.com.
The 37-mile range has 84 named peaks, the highest being Huckleberry Knob at 5,564 feet.
Investigators didn’t say which mountain Brock’s body was found on, but they believe he crashed two days earlier, according to troopers. They tracked him by an ankle monitor.
Authorities didn’t release additional details but said the crash is under investigation.
Towns County is about 110 miles northeast of Atlanta, near the Georgia-North Carolina line.
This story was originally published July 24, 2023 at 7:44 AM with the headline "Motorcyclist last seen riding in mountains found dead down embankment, Georgia cops say."