MOULTRIE, Ga. — A Moultrie man killed in a Friday night collision while driving his motorcycle was a former Colquitt County Sheriff’s Office and Correctional Institution employee.

Clifford Resean Bennett, 34, was killed when a driver pulled in front of his motorcycle, causing the fatal collision, according to the Georgia State Patrol.

  Bennett struck the side of a 2005 Toyota Sienna driven by Biren Patel, 42, also of Moultrie, in the outside north lane of Veterans Parkway North, about 0.3 miles north of Highway 37. Bennett’s 2008 Suzuki GSX collided with the rear passenger door of the Toyota, where two teen-agers were passengers, as Patel pulled out of a driveway into the north lane.

Patel apparently was exiting onto the highway from a restaurant in the area at about 11:39 p.m., Colquitt County Coroner Verlyn Brock said.

The collision ejected Bennett, GSP reports said. Blood tests were pending on Patel. The reports said that he failed to yield, but no charges had been filed as of Monday.

“He was a good guy, always smiling, cutting up,” said Scotty Conger, a sheriff’s jail officer who worked with Bennett at the intake desk of the facility.

Bennett worked for the prison from April 2014-January 2015, when he transferred to the sheriff’s office and worked there about a year, sheriff’s Capt. Julius Cox said on Monday.

He had planned to go to work at the Moultrie Police Department, but an injury prevented him, Conger said. He worked in a supervisory position at National Beef and had started a second job at Wal-Mart.

“He loved riding motorcycles,” Conger said. “I figure he was coming home from working at Wal-Mart. He loved boxing.”