UGA student killed in Athens motorcycle crash in Georgia

A 23-year-old University of Georgia student died Thursday morning from injuries he suffered two days earlier in a motorcycle crash.

Yong Kyu “Kevin” Nam suffered severe head trauma Tuesday afternoon when his motorcycle collided with a car backing out of a driveway on North Peter Street in east Athens.
He was on life support at Athens Regional Medical Center until he succumbed to his injuries.

Nam is the second UGA student to die this week.
Though he was wearing a helmet, it flew off his head upon impact with the car, Athens-Clarke County police said.
Authorities suspect the helmet wasn’t properly secured.
The police department’s Traffic Unit continued its accident reconstruction on Thursday to determine how fast the motorcycle was traveling and other factors involved in the crash.

Police said the motorist would have had a relatively unobstructed view of traffic as he backed his car out of the driveway.Any charges are pending results of the accident reconstruction.

Nam’s death came two days after the body of 22-year-old Rebecca Elaine Greene was found in a west Athens creek. Authorities said that preliminary autopsy results found no evidence of foul play in Greene’s death, and medical examiners are awaiting the results of laboratory tests to determine how she died.

Greene was found hours after her boyfriend reported her missing.Authorities said the last known contact with the woman was when she spoke by phone with her boyfriend late Monday afternoon.

Her body was found in a creek off The Plaza, a street that intersects with West Hancock Avenue and is around the corner from where Greene lived with her boyfriend on Indale Avenue.