The Georgia State Patrol has released details of a Wednesday afternoon chase through two counties that ended in a crash south of Homer.
On Wednesday, April 18, troopers from Georgia State Patrol Post 32 in Athens registered a pair of motorcycles on Ga. 334 in Jackson County traveling 96 mph in a 55-mph zone.
“Upon attempting to make a traffic stop, both motorcycles fled at very high rates of speed,” according to Cpl. Donnie O. Saddler of GSP Post 32. “The pair of motorcycles split up on Ga. 15/U.S. 441.”
A second unknown motorcycle continued north, while a black Honda motorcycle turned back onto Old 441. The chase eventually traveled through Commerce.
“As the troopers pursued the motorcycle into Banks County on Ga. 15/US-441, the driver, who has now been identified as Zachary Ray Hix, 36, of a Commerce address, crashed into a marked Georgia State Patrol vehicle,” Saddler’s statement reads.
The wreck happened on Ga. 15/U.S. 441 near Banks Road, just north of McDonald Circle just before 3 p.m.
Saddler reported Hix received non-life-threatening injuries and was transported by ambulance to Piedmont Athens Regional Medical Center.
The investigation is continuing and charges are pending.
