According to the Tennessee Highway Patrol, Matthew Waylon Oakley, age 21 of Manchester was killed in a motorcycle accident Thursday morning.

The man crashed as he was traveling south bound on State Highway 269 near Normandy in Bedford County.

Trooper Jackie Smith's report says that Oakley's Honda motorcycle struck a road sign and slid down the embankment where it struck a tree, with the Manchester man being found about 15 feet away.