The Georgia State Patrol charged a driver in connection with a wreck that seriously injured two people and tied up traffic on US 441/GA 15 early Tuesday morning in Mt. Airy.
27-year-old Caudell Lindsay III of Mobile, Alabama was driving a 2017 International Budget rental truck west on Antioch Church Road. He attempted to crossover the highway and pulled into the path of a 2004 Chevrolet Astro van driven by 28-year-old Jesus Morales Duran of Cornelia.
The truck hit the right side of the van, causing it to flip. The van then “continued traveling north while completely rolling over one time,” according to TFC Travis Sanders of Georgia State Patrol Post 7 in Toccoa.
The van landed upright on its wheels in the southbound turn lane of US 441/GA 15 North. The truck came to a stop some 220 feet from the area of impact.
Emergency response
Other motorists called in the accident to 911 around 7:59 a.m. When emergency responders arrived they found one person from the van was ejected, another was still trapped inside.
The accident injured four people, two seriously, according to Habersham Emergency Services (HCES) Director Chad Black..
HCES transported Duran and his two passengers, 26-year-old Orlando Navarrette-Alcaraz and 20-year-old Jose Alejandro Contreras Juarez also of Cornelia, to Northeast Georgia Medical Center in Gainesville.
Stephens County EMS assisted Habersham and transported Lindsay to Stephens County Hospital for evaluation.
GSP cited Lindsay for failure to yield. He was also cited for violating commercial motor vehicle hours of service.
The accident shut down part of US 441/GA 15 North in the area of the accident for several hours.
