A two-vehicle wreck Monday evening near Turnerville claimed the life of a Clarkesville woman. 69-year-old Elizabeth Ann Peterson was fatally injured in the crash just after 5 p.m. at the intersection of Tom Born Road and U.S. 441/GA 15.
Peterson was driving a Honda CR-V west on Tom Born Road when she failed to yield after stopping at the intersection, the Georgia State Patrol says. She pulled into the path of an F-250 traveling north on U.S. 441/GA 15.
The pickup, driven by Eric Douglas, 44, of Franklin, North Carolina, struck the Honda on the driver’s side.
“Both vehicles traveled North on GA 15 before leaving the shoulder and striking the guardrail,” the accident report states.
Peterson was trapped inside her vehicle and had to be extricated, according to Habersham County Emergency Services Director Chad Black. EMS transported her by ambulance to Northeast Georgia Medical Center in Gainesville, where she died about an hour later from her injuries.
GSP says Douglas was not injured in the crash.
