WRONG-WAY FIERY COLLISION
BETWEEN A CAR AND A TRUCK KILLS A MAN ON I-85 NEAR ATLANTA, GEORGIA
January 25, 2015
ATLANTA, GEORGIA (AP) —
Police have identified the driver killed in a wrong-way crash on a metro
Atlanta interstate over the weekend as 27-year-old Keith F. Smith of Suwanee.
DeKalb County police say that Smith's 2001 Mercedes
exploded in flames when it collided with a southbound rental truck around 1:30
a.m. Saturday on Interstate 85 South.
Police said the Mercedes was driving the wrong way on
the interstate and crashed head-on into the rental truck.
The driver of the truck, George Saunders of Cumming, was
taken to Grady Memorial Hospital. His condition wasn't available.
The wreck closed the southbound lanes of I-85 for about
four hours early Saturday.