Drivers injured in Worth County, Georgia crash
One driver critically injured in Work County vehicle crash
SYLVESTER — Two drivers were injured in a traffic accident Saturday in Worth County, one of them critically, officials say.
According
to the Georgia State Patrol, Anthony Landrum was traveling north on
State Highway 33 just north of Calhoun Road in Worth County when the
2008 Ford pickup truck he was driving was involved in a collision with a
tractor trailer truck in the south lane driven by Kenneth Tyner, 53.
Trooper
Robert Corbin with GSP Post 40 said the accident occurred around 10
a.m. when Landrum failed to maintain his lane and allowed his vehicle to
cross the center line into the southbound lane.
The
impact of the collision caused the tractor trailer to “jackknife,”
Corbin said, and end up the woods off the west shoulder of the highway,
while the pickup truck left the highway off the east shoulder.
Following
the accident, Landrum was airlifted to Macon Medical Center in critical
condition, Corbin said, while Tyner was treated for a broken knee at
Phoebe Worth Hospital in Sylvester.
Traffic
was blocked on Highway 33 until about 3:30 p.m. Saturday, Corbin said,
when the northbound lane was reopened to traffic. Hazmat personnel and
workers with the Georgia Department of Transportation were continuing to
remove debris, sand and up to about 250 gallons of diesel fuel from the
roadway late Saturday afternoon, Corbin said.