• Fatal Accidents in Georgia

 

According to Georgia State Patrol officials, the accident happened at the intersection of Hannatown Road and Jep Martin Road. Police confirmed that a Toyota Corolla and a Chevrolet pickup truck were traveling in the area when they collided with each other due to reasons that are not yet known. Both vehicles sustained severe damages in the accident.

Paramedics, fire crews, and several other responders were called to the scene to help those in need. The 22-year-old driver of the Toyota, as well as his 18-year-old passenger, were both tragically pronounced deceased at the scene due to traumatic injuries. Five people inside the pickup truck sustained injuries in the collision, including the 23-year-old driver and several passengers. Two of the injured victims were identified as a 1-year-old and a 2-year-old. The parties were seriously injured and hospitalized.

The roadway was blocked in several lanes at the intersection for some time as police worked to clear the scene.

No further details have been released. The investigation into the circumstances of the collision continues.

We offer our warmest condolences to the family and friends of the victims who have lost their lives in this accident. We hope that the injured parties also receive a full recovery from their injuries.

When the words of an iconic young black minister from Georgia hit American ears, it signaled the crossing of the Rubicon on the question of civil rights—the die was cast, and there was no way for the country to go except into the future. Quoted (and misquoted) countless times since, Martin Luther King Jr’s words struck both sides of the American racial consciousness, both forcing white listeners to grapple with the pernicious reality of systemic racism and reminding nonwhite listeners that the promises of America belonged to them even if the current system failed to realize it. Seizing those promises was not merely some self-help doctrine but a clear moral imperative.

Though America’s checkered past has taken years to overcome (and in certain ways the battle isn’t over), there ought to be no denying that we’ve made historic progress. Sixty years since the country was introduced to Dr. King’s dream, the promises of that dream have indeed spread, albeit imperfectly, through this country across racial, social, and cultural lines. 

America’s race problem has gotten better. So why are we so divided? The modern American racial divide does not manifest via water fountains or bus seats, but over the extent of solutions for the racism that remains. This divide is a racial one in many ways: based on 2022 Pew data, a majority of black Americans see the main source of remaining American racism to be structural, whereas the majority of Americans generally view modern racism as being primarily on an individual basis. Predictably, this divide also follows party lines: while 19 percent of Republicans are willing to say there is no anti-Black racism in our society, only 3 percent of Democrats are willing to say the same.

Police are providing more details on a Northwest D.C. shooting that hospitalized two women traveling by Uber early Saturday morning.

Police are providing more details on a Northwest D.C. shooting that hospitalized two women traveling by Uber early Saturday morning.

According to a police report obtained by WTOP, officers responded around 12:45 a.m. Saturday to the 600 block of Morton St. NW, near the intersection with Georgia Avenue, on reports of a shooting and property damage.

A driver told police she was waiting to cross Georgia Avenue from Morton Street, when an unknown assailant driving a gray or silver Hyundai Elantra heading southbound on Georgia Avenue began to shoot in her direction, causing damage to her car’s hood and driver-side fender.

Police said two female victims who were wounded from the shooting were discovered at a nearby hospital later in the morning. Both were inside an Uber rideshare at the time of the shooting.

One of the victims told police their Uber was at the intersection of Georgia Avenue and Morton Street when she heard “what she believed were fireworks.”

She said that after sensing “a warm feeling on her leg,” she realized that she had been shot. At the same time, the other victim in the Uber also realized she had been shot.

The driver of the Uber, who has not been identified, drove the two victims to a hospital, according to the police report.

An Uber spokesperson told WTOP that the “senseless act of violence is sickening and we hope the injured riders recover quickly. We commend the driver for his quick action in getting help for the victims and are grateful he is uninjured.”

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University of Georgia offensive lineman Devin Willock and staff member Chandler LeCroy were killed in an early morning car crash on Sunday in Athens, Georgia, just hours after the football team held its national championship parade, according to school officials.

“The entire Georgia family is devastated by the tragic loss of football student-athlete Devin Willock and football staff member Chandler LeCroy,” the school said in a statement Sunday. “Devin and Chandler were two special people who meant so much to the University of Georgia, our football program and our athletic department. We ask that everyone keep their families in your prayers during this very difficult time.”

Two other members of the football program were injured in the crash, the school said. They are both in stable condition.

Georgia Bulldogs offensive lineman Devin Willock (77) looks to block during the College Football Playoff National Championship game between the TCU Horned Frogs and the Georgia Bulldogs on Jan. 9, 2023 at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, Calif.Freddie Beckwith/MarinMedia.org/Cal Sport Media via AP