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The truck driver killed Wednesday in a fatal wreck that shutdown northbound lanes of I-85 in Spaghetti Junction for hours has been identified as 33-year-old Corey Hart of Lithia Springs.
Two people from the Birmingham area were killed in a car wreck in Georgia over the weekend.
Elise Word, 25, of Birmingham, and Denerra Patterson, 25, of Docena, were killed when the car Word was driving flipped and hit a guard rail on U.S. Highway 78/Stone Mountain Highway around 5 a.m. Sunday.
The vehicle flipped several times and hit an SUV, but the driver of the other vehicle was not injured, according to the newspaper.
A man has been arrested after a man was struck and killed on the downtown connector in Atlanta Tuesday night.
The pedestrian was hit on I-75/85 near Williams Street according to Atlanta police. The preliminary investigation indicated the man was on the left shoulder of the southbound lanes before he attempted to cross the downtown connector.
Several vehicles struck the man. Two drivers stopped and waited for police to arrive. The pedestrian was pronounced dead at the scene according to police.
Two people were ejected from a car in a DeKalb County accident Saturday.
According to DeKalb County fire, the accident occurred at Stone Mountain Highway and I-285.
Both of the people ejected were taken to Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta in critical condition.
One woman is dead after a multiple-vehicle collision on Interstate 85 southbound Thursday morning.
The accident closed all lanes at Interstate 285 for a couple of hours.
According to preliminary reports, the woman was killed after being struck by her car while examining the car which had been forced into oncoming traffic after striking a guardrail.
Authorities are still investigating this incident.
The mad rush began at the first sight of snow: Across the Atlanta area, schools let out early and commuters left for home after lunch, instantly creating gridlock so severe that security guards and doormen took to the streets to direct cars amid a cacophony of blaring horns.
Law enforcement agencies throughout Georgia responded to hundreds of crashes as snow fell throughout the region and drivers spent hours struggling through commutes that would typically take minutes.
Georgia State Patrol spokesman Gordy Wright says troopers have responded to more than 500 crashes throughout the state since late Tuesday morning. Wright says 65 injuries and no fatalities have been reported. Crashes appear to have been concentrated in northwest Georgia, west Georgia and the metro Atlanta area.
A tractor trailer overturned on I-285 westbound on Wednesday night emptying beer all over the interstate.
The accident happened on the ramp from I-285 to I-20 eastbound around 11:30 p.m. and closed one lane until about 5:30 a.m. Thursday morning.
The truck was removed the around 4:18 a.m. and traffic should be moving smoothly through the area in time for the morning commute.