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One person is dead and two others were taken to a hospital after a big rig flipped on its side on northbound I-85 in Gwinnett County near Steve Reynolds Boulevard in unincorporated Duluth.
The accident occurred at 7:05 a.m. Thursday, after a tractor trailer that collided with another vehicle flipped on its side.
There is one confirmed fatality, who was later identified as Eric Murray, 39. Two other people, later identified as Bryant Garrott, 62, and Maria Zeelaya Torres, 44, were taken to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries.
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.
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.
A wreck involving several cars backed up traffic for miles on Interstate 85 southbound Monday morning in Spartanburg County.
The wreck happened near the 62 mile marker, which is near the Highway 290 exit, at 6:25 a.m.
Troopers said a vehicle headed southbound hit the brakes due to traffic on the interstate.
That car was rear-ended which caused a chain reaction that ended up involving 11 cars, troopers said.
A MARTA bus and three other vehicles were involved in a Friday morning crash on southbound I-85 in Clayton County, according to GDOT.
A MARTA Police spokesperson said that it initially appears that the bus struck a disabled vehicle on I-85 before the Old National Highway exit. The bus driver was not injured and there were no passengers aboard his vehicle at the time, Harris said.
There is no word on the condition of people in the other vehicles.
The two right lanes of the roadway are affected by the collision, according to GDOT.
Authorities say a 49-year-old woman was killed Thursday when the car she was driving crashed on Interstate 85 in Opelika.
The Lee County coroner pronounced Terrie Cherie Reed of LaFayette, Ala., dead of multiple injuries after the one-car wreck.
Reed was heading north around 10:37 a.m. Thursday, when the 1995 Chevy Lumina left the highway and overturned.
The latest wreck on a metro Atlanta freeway system that features names such as Spaghetti Junction, Peach Passes and HOT lanes involved a ham jam.
A truck hauling 40,000 pounds of hams overturned, spilling the cargo onto an interstate ramp south of Atlanta. Authorities were working early Thursday to clear the ramp from Old National Highway to Interstate 85 southbound after the crash around 4 a.m.
The cab of the truck was destroyed in the crash, which also caused a diesel fuel spill.