MOULTRIE, Ga. — The family of a young woman charged in a Sunday automobile crash is challenging the Georgia State Patrol’s report of the accident.

Harlie Latimer, 20, of Moultrie, was charged with following too closely, DUI and driver to exercise due care following the three-vehicle crash that sent her and three other people to the hospital.

A caller to The Observer, who identified himself as Jim Smith, Latimer’s father, said the DUI charge was the result of the trooper finding a bottle of prescription medicine in the car.

The GSP said the trooper charged Latimer with possession of a controlled substance but did not say what that substance was or the circumstances related to that charge.

The booking report at the Colquitt County Jail did not list the controlled substance charge. Because the booking report reflects charges backed up by warrants, The Observer included the charges from it rather than the ones on the GSP report in an article about the wreck published in Thursday’s newspaper.

Smith said that between the time the GSP investigated the wreck and when Latimer was booked, the family provided law enforcement with a copy of the prescription, which allowed her to legally possess the painkiller that was found in her car.

Smith said blood was drawn for a DUI test, but results may take two months to get back. He said he believes the test will show Latimer had none of the medicine in her system at the time of the wreck because she had taken it early in the day and the wreck happened about 9:30 p.m.

If that is the case, he expects the DUI charge to be dropped.

In addition, Smith alleged the car in front of Latimer’s stopped in the middle of the road and Latimer didn’t see it in time, which was not stated in the state patrol’s initial report.

Smith was not a witness to the crash.