A pickup truck driver was trapped in his truck after running off the road and crashing into a tree along GA-197 North.
The single-vehicle accident happened around 2:30 p.m. Tuesday afternoon north of Clarkesville. The driver, 74-year-old Randall Gene Mull of Clarkesville, was traveling north in a 1997 Ford pickup when he lost control of the vehicle, the State Patrol says. The pickup traveled onto the east shoulder of the highway and struck a culvert. After impact, the truck ran head-long into a tree.
The accident happened at the end of the driveway in front of Tina Cheek’s house. “The vehicle passed between my board fence and my mailbox on the south side of my drive, jumped the driveway, landing in the ditch wedged against a tree on the north side of my drive,” she says.
Habersham County Emergency Services personnel, Sheriff’s deputies, the Clarkesville Fire Department and Georgia State Troopers responded to the scene.
First responders extricated Mull from the wreckage. Habersham EMS transported him by ambulance to Northeast Georgia Medical Center in Gainesville where he was treated for minor injuries, according to officials.
This article has been updated with additional information
