A Tennessee truck driver escaped serious injury Wednesday morning when the tractor-trailer he was driving overturned on Duncan Bridge Road.
According to the Georgia State Patrol, the brakes on the 2014 Peterbilt rig failed, causing the driver to make an evasive maneuver. The southbound truck turned right onto Duncan Bridge Road but was traveling “too fast through the turn,” GSP says. The truck overturned on the driver’s side, striking its top on the guardrail.
The crash happened around 9:30 a.m. and temporarily stalled traffic as emergency crews worked to clear the scene.
Habersham EMS transported the driver, 59-year-old Richard Wayne Childress, to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. Troopers charged him with driving too fast for conditions.
