CHILHOWEE, Tenn. (WSPA) — A Greenville woman was killed and a man hurt in a motorcycle crash in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
The accident happened Thursday morning along the Foothills Parkway about six miles east of Chilhowee Lake, park officials said in a news release.
Rodney Bowers, 70, of Greenville lost control of a 2017 Kawasaki motorcycle and wrecked, officials said.
A passenger on Bowers’ motorcycle died from her injuries. Park officials identified the passenger as 56-year-old Janice Cadotte of Greenville.
Bowers was taken to the University of Tennessee Medical Center in Knoxville.
His condition is unknown at this time.