A 34-year-old man by the name of Timothy Collier was crossing US-19 South in Lee County, Georgia on the morning of April 8th when he was hit and killed by a car. Chief Deputy Lewis Harris from the Lee County Sheriff’s Office told the WALB 10 news team the driver hit the pedestrian and stopped the car…
On Tuesday night, March 30th, a Macon man riding his motorcycle crashed with a GMC Yukon SUV at Forsyth Road and Wesleyan Drive at 8:15 p.m. The intersection runs 3 ways and sits at the edge of the Wesleyan College campus. A well-traveled straightaway is also nearby. The victim, Tyler Eason, 30, died at the…
On Tuesday afternoon, March 23rd, a Warner Robins pedestrian was hit by a truck in a Kroger grocery store parking lot on Highway 96. Unfortunately, instead of doing the right thing by stopping, the truck driver drove off and left the injured victim to call for help. Warner Robins police are still searching for the owner of…
Deputies from the Bibb County Sheriff’s Office are investigating a fatal motorcycle accident in Macon, Georgia that occurred at the Emery Highway and Womack Street intersection on Friday, March 11, 2021. Reports show the motorcycle collided with another vehicle around 1:30 p.m. There were 2 occupants on the motorcycle at the time of the accident. Both the…
On the night of March 2, Florida man Bryan Alan Granison, 29, sat in the middle of the road near the Pio Nono and Glendale Ave. intersection in Macon, Georgia. Granison was struck by a Kia Optima and pronounced dead at the scene by Bibb Coroner Leon Jones. “He got mad with his girlfriend,” Jones…
On Monday, February 15, the Georgia State Patrol reported a single-vehicle accident that left 2 people hospitalized. The driver was traveling westbound on Georgia 96 in Twiggs County when they lost control of their Dodge Charger. The vehicle overturned and traveled off the south shoulder before rolling down and stopping in an embankment. The passenger was ejected…
On Monday morning, February 8, 2021, a man driving westbound on Lower Hartley Bridge Road lost control of his vehicle and overturned several times, according to investigators at the Georgia State Patrol and Crawford County Sheriff’s Office. Coroner Sheldon Mattox pronounced the driver, Russell Steven Wright, dead at the scene. The investigation is still ongoing. A separate…
A truck accident involving a 2017 Ford box truck and a 2016 Volvo 18-wheeler was reported at the intersection of Russell Parkway and GA 247 on February 4, 2020 by the Georgia State Patrol. Accident investigators determined that the box truck failed to yield to the 18-wheeler, striking the left side of the 18-wheeler as…
According to the Georgia Governor’s Office of Highway Safety, 35 fatalities were reported in 2019 in Bibb County alone. In the 5 years since 2015, there has been an increase of almost 67 percent in fatal traffic accidents. So far in 2021, there have already been 2 fatal accidents in Bibb County that occurred within a…
Two men have been hospitalized and 1 woman is dead after a tragic head-on collision in Houston County. On Tuesday afternoon, January 19, 2 pick-up trucks collided head on. According to Captain Ronnie Harlowe of Houston County Sheriff’s office, the accident occurred in the 400-block of Dunbar Rd. near Carl Vinson and N. Houston Rd. One of…
