The Georgia State Patrol has identified the biker killed in a motorcycle crash Saturday in Stephens County as 49-year-old William Pate of Seneca, South Carolina.
Pate was fatally injured when the 2020 Harley Davidson he was driving ran off the road, struck a curb, and overturned.
Troopers with Georgia State Patrol Post 7 in Toccoa were called to the scene of the crash on GA 17 at Whispering Pines at 3:41 p.m. on November 27.
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Pate’s death marked the first traffic-related fatality in Northeast Georgia over the long Thanksgiving holiday weekend. Area troopers have worked multiple accidents with injuries, including two Saturday in Rabun and Habersham counties that sent five people to the hospital.
