(Cleveland) – A 51-year-old Gainesville truck driver was seriously injured when the log truck he was operating wrecked in White County Monday.
CPL Major Patterson, with the Georgia State Patrol in Gainesville, advised in an email that the accident occurred around 11:30 a.m. on Georgia Highway 254, west of Hogan Road. Patterson advised the driver, identified as Gary Smith, was traveling west approaching a curve. Smith failed to negotiate the curve and the tractor-trailer, loaded with logs, traveled off the right shoulder of the roadway into a creek, striking the embankment on the opposite side of the creek.
Trooper Patterson said the logs shifted forward striking the cab. Both the cab and trailer overturned on the passenger’s side. Patterson said Smith was extricated from the cab and transported to Northeast Georgia Medical Center with serious injuries.
According to trooper Patterson the driver was issued a warning for failure to maintain lane.
This article has been updated to show that the accident happened on Monday, April 1.
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