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Authorities say a 7-year-old girl was in critical condition and others were also hurt and after a four-vehicle accident in which a logging truck overturned.
The accident happened Friday evening on Chambers Road in Bibb County.
The Bibb County Sheriff Office said the accident began when an Oldsmobile Achiva pulled out of an apartment complex in front of a logging truck. Sheriff's officials say the truck driver tried to avoid the car but lost control and struck it and another vehicle.
The log truck overturned and some of the logs struck a Nissan pickup.
A fiery accident involving two tractor trailers shut down a portion of Interstate 20 in Douglas County for several hours Thursday afternoon.
Troopers with the Georgia State Patrol say a tractor trailer caught fire after running into the back of another just shutting down all eastbound traffic just past Lee Road just shortly after noon Thursday.
Westbound traffic was also delayed due to onlooker delays.
One lane of traffic was opened around 3:30 p.m. as wreckers worked to haul away the pair of semis.
Delays are expected through the evening rush hour.
A teenager has been charged in the accident that injured the Bartow County police chief on Wednesday morning.
According to Georgia State Patrol, Chief Terry J. Harget was struck by 18-year-old Alex Jordan Rouse while directing traffic at Woodland Middle School.
Rouse was driving a 2002 Crysler Concorde at the time of the accident.
A representative from Bartow County Schools says there are "two schools in the area and two Euharlee Police staff help direct traffic" every morning, which explains why the chief was directing traffic.
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.
A man was killed Saturday morning after driving into a pole in Cherokee County.
According to Georgia State Patrol, the man went off the road while driving in a curve on Arnold Mill Road around 6:15 a.m.
Police say the man struck a utility pole and was ejected from his vehicle.
He was pronounced dead and the scene and was not wearing a seat belt, according to authorities.
Georgia State Patrol says blood was drawn from the man to determine if alcohol played a role in the crash.
A second accident killed another man on the same Cherokee County road within a few hours Saturday morning.
According to Georgia State Patrol, 52-year-old John Meyer was riding a motorcycle on Arnold Mill Road when the he crossed the centerline of the road at O'Hara Drive and hit a concrete mixer truck head-on.
The crash occurred around 11:15 a.m.
Authorities say the Meyer was killed on impact. No one in the concrete mixer truck was injured.
A police chase ended with a suspect crashing his vehicle in DeKalb County Tuesday afternoon.
According to a representative from DeKalb County police, authorities responded to a burglary-in-progress call in the 1000 block of Celtic Circle in Stone Mountain at 1:35 p.m.
When officers arrived, the suspect fled the scene, according to police.
Authorities said as the suspect attempted to pass an SUV making a left turn, the suspect T-boned the SUV and both vehicles overturned in the 4100 block of Church Street in Clarkston.