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RICHARD DANIELSONThe 2003 Treasure Island accident involving two cars and a motorcycle sent two other motorists to the hospital.
A former Palm Harbor man who now lives in Seminole was sentenced this week to two years of probation in an accident last year in Treasure Island where a sport utility vehicle hit and seriously injured a motorcyclist.
Ty Taylor Morgan, 35, pleaded no contest Thursday to charges of leaving the scene of an accident involving injury, driving with a license suspended or revoked and DUI, according to court records. At the time of the Oct. 9 accident, he lived at 1020 Wexford Leas Blvd.
Pinellas County sheriff's deputies arrested Morgan after someone called St. Pete Beach police that night and asked whether officers were looking for someone in a white SUV.
The caller said a man was examining his SUV, as if he were looking for damage, on Blind Pass Road. Responding officers found Morgan's 1998 Infiniti SUV parked at the far west end of 78th Avenue. Inside, Morgan was reclined in the seat, deputies reported. He was talking on a cell phone, had thrown up and was crying.
About the same time, those officers learned of an accident involving two cars and a motorcycle at Gulf Boulevard and 107th Avenue N in Treasure Island.
The accident occurred when an SUV hit a motorcycle driven by Chysuk Proctor, 34, of St. Pete Beach and pushed it into a car driven by Martin Welby, 77, of Madeira Beach.
At the time of the accident, deputies said Proctor suffered serious but not life-threatening head and spinal cord injuries. Welby was taken to Largo Medical Center for treatment of possible neck and back injuries.
As part of his sentence, court records show, Morgan, of 8565 110th St., was ordered to pay an as-yet-to-be-determined restitution to both men. He also was ordered to pay $1,365 in fines, fees and court costs, had his license revoked for six months, was given 50 hours of community service and ordered to attend DUI school.