At the height of the Thursday morning rush hour commute, a tire flew off a pickup truck traveling north on Georgia 400, and landed on the windshield of a car in the southbound lanes, killing the driver, according to police in Sandy Springs, a suburb of Atlanta.
“A truck traveling north on Ga 400 at Pitts Road lost a wheel and tire” around 8 a.m. police Sgt. Sam Worsham said in a statement.
“The wheel went over the wall and struck a vehicle south on Ga. 400.”
The driver, the only person in the vehicle, died on the scene, according to police. Her name has not been released.
I spoke to the pick driver whose wheel flew off on GA 400 this morning. He feels awful, sorry to the woman's family. Live NOW on Ch2 pic.twitter.com/4iQYZa0Xkh
— Tyisha Fernandes (@TyishaWSB) October 19, 2017
The pickup truck driver was still on the scene at noon. He expressed remorse during an interview with WSB-TV.
“I was on the way to my job,” Jorge Herrera said. “I’m not drunk. I’m not driving fast. It was like a normal (day) trying to get to my job.”
At times, the accident blocked multiple lanes in both directions, causing a massive back-up for morning drivers.
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