LINCOLN COUNTY, NC : Friends mourn Lincoln County man who died in motorcycle collision with fallen tree near Club Drive and N. Pilot Knob Road on Thursday, 13th June 2019
A small makeshift memorial has formed where a man died along NC-73 in Lincoln County.
Jacob Chase, 24, of Lincoln County, died early Wednesday morning after his motorcycle collided with a tree that had fallen in the road.
The wreck happened around 2 a.m. near Club Drive and N. Pilot Knob Road.
Chase was pronounced dead at the scene.
A few of Chase's friends returned to the crash site Thursday night.
Hollie Fox and Elena Poteat left flowers along the side of the road.
Fox said Chase was a friend and neighbor. She said she had known him for 15 years and thought of him like a brother.
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