A fiery crash on I-85 North in Hart County early Monday killed one man and seriously injured another.
Around 4:05 a.m., state troopers responded to a three-vehicle crash near mile marker 178. The Georgia State Patrol says a Jeep Cherokee traveling south in the northbound lanes crashed head-on into a tractor-trailer and became engulfed in flames.
The Jeep then traveled across the northbound right lane and struck a guardrail, ejecting the driver.
The tractor-trailer ran into the median and hit a ditch. Debris from the crash struck a tanker truck that was also traveling north.
The driver of the Jeep, Devin James Eastman, 41, of Naples, Florida, died at the scene.
Hart County EMS transported the tractor-trailer driver to AnMed Health Medical Center in Anderson, South Carolina, with serious injuries. Troopers identify him as Jonathan Max Cranfill, 47, of Mansfield, Georgia,
The tanker truck driver, Donald Jason Singer, 49, of Enterprise, Alabama, was not injured.
The wreck temporarily shut down the northbound lanes of I-85 near the Georgia/South Carolina border as troopers investigated the scene and crews cleared the wreckage.
