Quick Facts:
Where: The accident occurred on Highway 82 in Terrell County, Georgia.
What Happened: A tractor-trailer and a passenger vehicle collided under unknown conditions.
Participants:
- Driver of passenger vehicle
- Passenger in vehicle
- Driver of tractor-trailer
Reported Injuries/Fatalities:
- Driver of passenger vehicle, killed
- Passenger in vehicle, killed
- Driver of tractor-trailer, injured
Details:
On or about Thursday, June 9th, 2022, around 10:00 in the morning, a major accident between a passenger vehicle and a tractor-trailer left to people dead and sent a truck driver to the hospital. Troopers from the GSP said the accident was reported along Highway 82 in Terrell County, Georgia.
Representatives from the Georgia State Patrol said two as-of-yet unidentified individuals were killed when the vehicle they were in and a tractor-trailer collided under unspecified circumstances along Highway 82. Emergency responders pronounced two people in the car dead of their injuries after the accident, while the driver of the tractor-trailer was taken to the hospital with unspecified injuries.
According to Google Maps, the scene of the collision is not far from the exit for Dawson.
State and local law enforcement assisted after the accident.