Tennessee
Tennessee man found alive three days after going missing in motorcycle crash; family never lost hope
Friends and family of a Tennessee man who lay alongside his wrecked motorcycle at the bottom of an embankment for three days said Sunday they never gave up hope of finding him alive.
Taylor Boyle was reported missing by his family, after he disappeared en route home from visiting a friend last weekend.
“He had left a buddy of ours in the Fountain City area, he was headed from Fountain City to Heiskell, which is north of the Powell area, so we kind of had a good idea of where he came from and where he was going to,” Boyle’s friend Cameron Williams told WBIR-TV. “He told our buddy, he was grabbing McDonald’s for breakfast and headed this way.”
He never made it.
His family had last heard from him about 10 a.m. on Oct. 15. After monitoring his phone and social media accounts and seeing no activity, they started searching. The family also filed a missing persons report with the Knox County Sheriff’s Office.
By Tuesday evening, several vehicles, each carrying three to five people, had fanned out across town and “looking in ditches and ravines,” Williams said. After sundown three of the searchers went on foot, with flashlights, and that’s when they found Boyle — at the bottom of an embankment, where he had apparently flown 30 to 50 feet down off a back road in a rural area, Williams said.
“He was sent into the woods down an embankment and laid there for almost three days in the cold with no food or water,” another friend wrote on Facebook. “The fact he survived the crash is a miracle in itself!”
“He’s extremely lucky to be alive,” Williams concurred, speaking to CNN.
No information was available Sunday on Boyle’s condition.