Local man killed in holiday weekend wreck
Published 2:00 pm Wednesday, May 31, 2017
- U-R update
MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga. — A 30-year-old Milledgeville man was killed early Sunday in a single-car crash just a short distance from his home, local and state authorities say.
The local man was among several people killed over the long Memorial Day weekend across Georgia, according to authorities.
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Trooper First Class 3 Patrick Brantley of the Georgia State Patrol post in Milledgeville identified the victim as Gerald Bernard Anderson, of 168 Anderson Drive, N.E.
Baldwin County Deputy Coroner Ken Garland pronounced Anderson dead at the scene of the wreck that happened at 1:19 a.m. on state Route 22, about 621 feet west of Anderson Drive.
The victim, driving a 2006 Ford Focus, had been traveling west on state Route 24 near its intersection with S.R. 22 when the wreck happened, Trooper Brantley said in his report. As Anderson approached the left curve, the car left the roadway onto the north shoulder.
The car continued traveling in a westbound direction along the north shoulder before it eventually overturned in a nearby ditch, the investigating trooper said.
“The vehicle overturned onto its top and skidded back onto the roadway,” Brantley said.
The trooper said Anderson, who was not wearing a seat belt, was partially ejected out the front driver’s side window of the car.
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Afterward, the car continued across both lanes of S.R. 24 on its top before it eventually came to rest on the south shoulder, Brantley said. The car, which remained on its top, was facing in a westerly direction at that time.
Brantley pointed out that he was able to figure out the direction of the car’s path of travel from the tire, and gouge marks made in the grass and roadway.
The car traveled approximately 621 feet from the first tire marks on the north shoulder of the roadway through the ditch and to its final resting point, he said.