A Franklin man was sentenced to more than two years in prison for fleeing the scene of an accident that injured a motorcyclist.
Wade Mahon, 27, pleaded guilty to a charge of leaving the scene of an accident that caused serious bodily injury, a Level 6 Felony.
Johnson County Superior Court 2 Judge Peter Nugent accepted his plea and sentenced him to 800 days in prison, according to court documents.
State law typically mandates that people sentenced on a Level 6 felony, the lowest level felony, serve their sentence at county jails. However, some circumstances that require a sentence longer than a year mandate that the sentence be served at the Indiana Department of Corrections, according to court documents.
The sentence is set to run consecutive to a case in Hamilton County, where Mahon was charged and sentenced for unlawful possession of a syringe.
The charge for leaving the scene of an accident stems from an incident last September when Mahon fled the scene of an accident that seriously injured a motorcyclist.
The motorcyclist told Johnson County Sheriff’s Office deputies the vehicle driven by Mahon had crossed into his lane on Rocklane Road, east of Greenwood, and he could not avoid the accident, according to a news release from the Johnson County Sheriff’s Office.
Mahon struck the motorcycle with enough force to throw the man over the car and into the road, the news release said.
The motorcyclist said he was in severe pain and was taken to IU Health Methodist Hospital for possible broken bones.
After the accident, a witness followed Mahon’s car until a deputy could catch up to them. Mahon told the deputy when he exited the interstate, he had trouble seeing because of his headlights and thought he drove into an embankment, rather than a motorcyclist. The car was severely damaged, with the hood buckled and steam coming out of it, the news release said.
Police found a syringe in the car.
