A collision between a car and dump truck Tuesday afternoon in Rabun County seriously injured three people.
The accident happened around 2:20 p.m. on Jan. 16 at the intersection of GA 15/US 441 and Boggs Mountain Road.
According to the Georgia State Patrol’s preliminary crash report, 70-year-old John Franklin, of Hayesville, North Carolina, was driving a Nissan Versa east on Boggs Mountain Road. As he turned left onto Highway 441, Franklin pulled into the path of a northbound Western Star dump truck, troopers say.
The dump truck struck the Versa, seriously injuring Franklin and his passenger, 70-year-old Patricia Franklin, also of Hayesville.
The wreck also seriously injured the dump truck driver, 34-year-old Jonathan Munger of Rabun County.
The Franklins were transported to Northeast Georgia Medical Center in Gainesville for treatment. Munger was taken to Mountain Lakes Medical Center in Clayton.
The wreck shut down the highway for several hours while crews cleaned up dirt and debris.
Troopers from Georgia State Patrol Post 7 in Toccoa investigated the crash. They charged John Franklin with failure to yield at an intersection.
