UPDATED: One dead, two others injured after motorcycle collides with SUV Tuesday

A Woodbine man was killed Tuesday night when he was thrown from his motorcycle after colliding with an SUV on Ky. 3436 in Knox County.

Twenty-one-year-old Michael Caldwell was pronounced dead at the scene near Dugger Cemetery Road.

The passenger on his motorcycle, 29-year-old Jamie Sibley, who was also thrown clear following the impact, was airlifted to the University of Tennessee Medical Center.

Kentucky State Police Trooper Shane Jacobs, public affairs officer at Post 10 in Harlan, said the wreck occurred at 5:37 p.m.

Caldwell was travelling east on his Honda CVR 600 and came around a blind corner as 27-year-old Mallory Johnson, who was travelling west, attempted to turn her Nissan Armada left into her driveway.

The motorcycle broadsided the SUV, throwing Caldwell into the roadway and Sibley into an embankment on the other side of the road.

Witnesses said Johnson, who was pregnant, went into labor but was otherwise uninjured. She was taken by ambulance to Baptist Health Corbin. Her two-year-old twins were also in the vehicle but were uninjured.

Jacobs said the investigation is continuing. Neither Caldwell, nor Sibley were wearing helmets. Johnson and the children were wearing seatbelts and appropriate car seats were being used.

Neighbors said it is not uncommon for motorcycles and other vehicles to come speeding along that stretch of roadway and be forced to hit their brakes hard when they reach the curves.

“The motorcycle riders will pop wheelies through here,” said one neighbor who noted she had installed a fence in the front yard to protect her children from reckless drivers. “They need to post some speed limit signs and patrol this area more.”

Jacobs said a KSP accident reconstructionist has been called to investigate.

It has not yet been determined whether drugs and/or alcohol were a factor in the crash.

Kentucky State Police, Woodbine Fire Department, West Knox Fire Department, Knox County Sheriff’s deputies, Knox County EMS, Air Evac and the Knox County Coroner’s Office all responded to the scene.