The Hall County Sheriff’s Office has charged a Clarkesville man with first-degree vehicular homicide in the death of a Cornelia woman. 46-year-old George Lovell Boggs was booked into the Hall County Jail Monday morning, March 17. He’s charged in the death of Julie Anna Griffith, who was fatally injured in a wreck on Interstate 985 at Lanier Parkway.
The wreck happened at approximately 2 p.m. on March 5 in Flowery Branch. According to the sheriff’s office, traffic was congested, and Boggs, driving alone in a 2002 Ford Excursion, “failed to brake for the slowing vehicles.” The Excursion hit the back of a car and SUV, causing a chain reaction that involved two other vehicles.
Hall County Fire Rescue transported five victims to Northeast Georgia Medical Center. Griffith was a passenger in one of the vehicles initially struck by Boggs and was among those taken to the hospital. She died of her injuries at the hospital eight days later, on Thursday, March 13. The other four victims have since been treated at the hospital and released.
In addition to vehicular homicide, authorities charged Boggs with misdemeanor reckless driving, distracted driving, two counts of following too closely, and defective equipment.
Boggs, who was not injured in the crash, remained in jail without bond on Tuesday afternoon, March 18.
Griffith lovingly remembered
Griffith, originally from Athens, was employed at Morris-Wrigley in Flowery Branch. In her obituary, her loved ones remember her as “a huge advocate of giving all she could to help any of God’s creatures that were in need.”
She will be buried Thursday, March 20, in Conyers. Instead of flowers, her family asks that memorials be made to the Cornerstone Animal Hospital in Alto in Griffith’s memory.
