Victim in felony DUI bike crash an Ohio sheriff’s deputy

By Jody Barr
WBTW News 13 Reporter
Published: May 14, 2008

The victim of a motorcycle crash Monday night in which the driver of the other bike was charged with felony DUI has been identified as an Ohio sheriff’s deputy.

Lance Corporal Sonny Collins with the Highway Patrol told News13 the victim in the accident is Danny Snow of Cincinnati, Ohio.

Collins said medics took Snow from the scene, but Collins said the report didn’t specify whether or not Snow was flown out or in a local hospital.

Friends of Snow’s from Cincinnati contacted News13 and reported that Snow is a sheriff’s deputy out of Hamilton County, Ohio.

The South Carolina Highway Patrol charged 26-yea-old Jonathan G. Sklar of Butler, Pa., with one count of felony driving under the influence with great bodily injury following the crash Monday.

Tuesday is Sklar’s 26th birthday, according to booking reports.

A county magistrate set bond on Sklar at $35,000 and ordered him to have no contact with the victim in the accident.

Sklar posted the $35,000 bond and was released from jail around 6:30 Tuesday night, according to detention officers at the J. Reuben Long Detention Center.

The crash happened Monday around 11:30 p.m. at the intersection of Atlantic Avenue and Highway 17 Business in Garden City near the Pink Pony Club.

Sklar told the judge that he and a group of friends were in town for Bike Week and the group were heading home Monday night when the crash happened.

Sklar was turning at Atlantic Avenue, when he failed to yield the right-of-way to oncoming traffic, according to the Highway Patrol.

Troopers said another motorcycle slammed into Sklar’s motorcycle, sending Snow, who was riding the second bike, to the hospital with a severe head injury, according to authorities.

Another victim was flown to the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston, according to authorities.

Sklar told the judge he owns a motorcycle shop in Butler, Pa. and the judge did allow him to return to his home state as long as he maintains constant contact with the court.