Date: November 27, 2009
Location: I-5, Roseburg, Oregon
Names: Donald Nathan “Nush” Abbott, Charity Elise Torres
As Donald Nathan Abbott, 37, of Atlanta, Georgia, embarked on a cross-country journey on an Ashland-made Brammo Enertia motorcycle, he wrote in his blog: “One idiot, 3,800 miles, & an electric motorcycle with a 42-mile range. What could possibly go wrong?”
Tragically, Abbott’s question was answered on November 27, 2009, when his motorcycle was rear-ended on I-5, near Clarks Branch Road, in Roseburg, Oregon, by Charity Elise Torres, 20, or Myrtle Creek. Abbott was thrown off the bike, and rescuers found him unconscious at the scene.
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