An 83-year-old Augusta man was recently booked into the jail for causing a fatal wreck last month that killed a local motorcyclist.
Joe Allen Sconyers was charged last Tuesday with homicide by vehicle, a misdemeanor, as well as failure to yield while turning left.
Sconyers told authorities that he didn’t see the biker Oct. 14 when he turned onto Tobacco Road from Peach Orchard Road in front of the path of 27-year-old Issa Gladston Malik-Kahn.
The biker was traveling at a “high rate of speed” when he struck Sconyer’s 2005 Ford F-150 truck, according to a sheriff’s report. Skid marks from his bike stretched 76 feet before the impact.
The victim was rushed to Augusta University Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead at 10:37 p.m. Friday, according to Coroner Mark Bowen.
A friend of the victim said online that Malik-Kahn had just purchased the motorcycle a week before the wreck.
Sconyers was booked into the jail last week and then released on his own recognizance.
Greg Rickabaugh is the Jail Report contributor for The Augusta Press. Reach him at greg.rickabaugh@theaugustapress.com
