A 21-year-old Forsyth County man died after his car struck a tree early Thanksgiving morning. Alex Owen Pagel of Bullock Lane lost control of a 1985 Nissan 300ZX on Browns Bridge Road, just east of Reeves Road, said Karleen Chalker, Forsyth County Sheriff’s Office spokeswoman. The single-vehicle collision occurred at 3:20 a.m. Thursday, Chalker said.“He ran off the south side of 369 … rotated clockwise, went up the embankment and struck the tree on the driver’s door,” said Chalker, citing a sheriff’s report. Pagel was not wearing a seatbelt, she said, and he was pronounced dead on the scene. The accident remains under investigation. Pagel was a graduate of North Forsyth High School, according to his obituary. The death was the first on county roads over the 102-hour Thanksgiving holiday travel period, which runs through midnight Sunday.
A 21-year-old Forsyth County man died after his car struck a tree early Thanksgiving morning. Alex Owen Pagel of Bullock Lane lost control of a 1985 Nissan 300ZX on Browns Bridge Road, just east of Reeves Road, said Karleen Chalker, Forsyth County Sheriff’s Office spokeswoman. The single-vehicle collision occurred at 3:20 a.m. Thursday, Chalker said.“He ran off the south side of 369 … rotated clockwise, went up the embankment and struck the tree on the driver’s door,” said Chalker, citing a sheriff’s report. Pagel was not wearing a seatbelt, she said, and he was pronounced dead on the scene. The accident remains under investigation. Pagel was a graduate of North Forsyth High School, according to his obituary. The death was the first on county roads over the 102-hour Thanksgiving holiday travel period, which runs through midnight Sunday.