UPDATE.....Just got this from another forum I'm a member of. It was around 1:00 when we crossed last friday she was killed around 10:00 that morning
A Tennessee woman
was killed instantly on the
Cherohala Skyway near
Spirit Ridge when she lost
control of her motorcycle
and hit a guardrail before
ejecting the vehicle.
The Nor th Carol ina
State Patrol said Sonya
Fay Foust, 48, of Lake City,
Tenn. was killed as she
was going downhill on the
Skyway and lost control of
her Harley-Davidson about
9:55 a.m. Friday.
The motorcycle “was
traveling too fast down
the mountain for a curve,
traveled off the roadway
to the right and struck the
guardrail face,” the state
patrol report said.
“After impact the motorcycle
slid along the guardrail
until it was delected
towards the road,” the report
said. “At this point the
operator was ejected off the
motorcycle.”
The sister of the victim,
Teresa Hinds of Tennessee,
said the victim was driving
with a group of lady bikers
from Knoxville. Foust,
who was raising her two
grandchildren, won the
Harley in a contest a couple
of years ago.
“She never met a stranger,”
Hinds said. “She was a
ball of fire. She was the life
of the party.”
More than 150 people
attended the victim’s funeral
Labor Day despite
a drenching all-day rain,
Hinds said.
