A tractor-trailer following too closely is to blame for a chain reaction rear-end wreck on GA 365 Wednesday morning, state troopers say. The crash sent three people to the hospital with minor injuries.
The three-vehicle wreck happened around 9 a.m. at the intersection with GA 384/Duncan Bridge Road.
The Georgia State Patrol says 54-year-old Robert Steven Armstead of Sheffield, Alabama, was driving an International Tractor Trailer south on GA 365. He rear-ended a Ford F150 driven by 75-year-old Toby Allen Lindeland of Martin. The impact caused the pickup to rear-end a Mazda CX5 Touring SUV carrying three family members from Franklin, North Carolina.
Lindeland and his passenger, 73-year-old Brenda Marie Lindeland, also of Martin, were injured in the wreck. Habersham County Emergency Services transported them to Northeast Georgia Medical Center in Gainesville with non-life-threatening injuries.
A passenger in the Mazda, 66-year-old Ruth Coir Gibson, was also injured but was not transported to the hospital, GSP says.
The Mazda driver, 41-year-old Joseph Andrew Gibson, and another passenger, 5-year-old Sylas Rhett Gibson, escaped injury, as did Armstead.
Troopers from GSP Post 7 in Toccoa investigated the wreck. They charged Armstead with following too closely.
