Vehicles Catch on Fire During Accident Resulting in Fatality Monday

Another vehicle accident in Cannon County involving a motorcycle resulted in a fatality Monday Afternoon.  According to Tennessee Highway Patrol reports filed by officers Tommy Cooper and Billy Prater, Mr. Raymond K. Knox Jr age 28 of Greenbriar Street was traveling west on John Bragg Highway on a 2005 Suzuki GSX motorcycle when James P. Hedge of Murfreesboro came to a stop at Lassiter Road and was in the process of crossing the Highway when Knox’s motorcycle hit the 2010 Chevrolet Tahoe SUV that Hedge was driving and caught under the front bumper.  Both vehicles caught on fire.  Mr. Knox was pronounced dead at the scene.  This is the second motorcycle fatality involving Woodbury residents in the last three months.