A gentleman was tragically killed, and a passenger seriously injured, on Sunday evening in a motorcycle accident in Kernersville, North Carolina.  The accident happened near mile marker 16 when a man apparently lost control of his bike and struck a guardrail on U.S. Highway 421.  The accident happened around 5:00 pm.

A passenger on the motorcycle named Saige Leftwich was seriously injured in the accident and taken to Wake Forest Baptist Hospital in Winston-Salem for treatment.

At the present time, police are apparently not certain why the driver lost control of the bike and they are investigating the accident.

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