A Mobile motorcyclist is asking for the public’s help after he says a driver struck him on U.S. 98 in Daphne and sped away without stopping.
The incident happened Thursday evening around 9:30 p.m. near East Bay Mini Storage. Marc Jones said he was riding along Highway 98 on his way to visit a friend in Fairhope when the driver of a white Subaru drifted into his lane and knocked him from his bike.
Jones said several bystanders stopped to help him after the crash. He was treated at a hospital, and he said none of his injuries are life-threatening.
“My knee has some road rash on it. My right hip is pretty bruised, I got a bruised shoulder and elbow and some abrasions on my left arm,” Jones said.
With medical bills and motorcycle repairs to pay, Jones is urging the driver to come forward.
“Leaving the scene of an accident with injuries is against the law, I believe it’s a felony,” Jones said. “If they just come back and do the right thing and give me their insurance information that would be helpful because I’m going to have a lot of medical bills.”
A police report was filed with the Daphne Police Department. Jones also wants to remind drivers to look twice for motorcyclists sharing the road.
“There are a lot of us out there riding motorcycles and we have every right to be out there on the road. It’s not the motorcycles, it’s the careless drivers on the road injuring the motorcyclists,” Jones said.