The Georgia State Patrol has charged a Gainesville woman with first-degree vehicular homicide in a fatal August wreck near Clarkesville.
State troopers say 24-year-old Alexis White was behind the wheel of a Jeep Renegade that ran the stop sign at the intersection of Highway 17 and Habersham Mill Road Connector on August 6, 2022. After running the stop sign, the Jeep ran head-on into a Ford F-150 pickup truck that was traveling south on the highway.
The collision fatally injured a passenger in White’s vehicle, 22-year-old Christopher Coffman of Monroe. The wreck also injured White and the pickup truck driver, 61-year-old Melvin Thompson of Clarkesville.
In addition to vehicular homicide, troopers charged White with reckless driving, failure to obey a stop sign, violating the state’s hands-free law, DUI, and causing serious injury by vehicle.
On December 7, authorities took White into custody and booked her at the Habersham County Detention Center. Three days later she was released from jail on a $20,070 bond.
