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Sunday, January 27, 2013

Details Emerge in Fatal Accident, Hit-and-Runs on Highway 78

Son of driver accused of ramming 15 vehicles stated that his father had just left a DeKalb bar, where he was regularly over-served.

Gwinnett County Police have released details surrounding the hit-and-runs that took place on Jan. 23 shortly before midnight. The accidents stretched from Memorial Drive in Stone Mountain to Walton Court in Snellville, with the final accident resulting in the death of Loganville's Mintiwal Woldeyhans, 69. Her daughter, 51-year-old Yeshihareg Abebe, is in the hospital with serious injuries.  The driver, Michael O. Snider, 70, is currently in Gwinnett County jail on charges of DUI, following too closely, reckless driving, vehicular homicide and serious injury by vehicle. He was detained by Snellville Police after he attempted to flee the scene.  Read the original story here. Following Snider's arrest, officers contacted his son and advised …

Monday, February 20, 2012

Stone Mountain Teen Dies in I-75 Police Chase

Cobb police say another teen killed and a third passenger is in stable condition.after car crashed early Saturday near Cumberland Boulevard.

Cobb police have identified the driver of the Cadillac: Derrick Pritchett, 17, of Stone Mountain. Pritchett was pronounced dead Saturday at WellStar Kennestone Hospital after crashing the car while trying to elude police. The passenger who died at the scene of the wreck is not being identified because he was only 16 years old. A speeding Cadillac that eluded Cobb police early Saturday morning crashed, overturned and caught fire on an Interstate 75 entrance ramp, leaving two people dead and another passenger hospitalized.  Cobb police spokesman Officer Michael Bowman said the male victims, an adult driver and a passenger who may have been a juvenile, were in a blue 1996 Cadillac that smashed into two concrete curbs and a retaining wall …

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