A Toccoa woman is lucky to be alive after the SUV she was driving was crushed in a crash on Highway 17 near Clarkesville.
29-year old Tiffany Lathan was taken to the hospital with a lower leg injury.
Lathan was driving a Chevy Equinox south on Ga 17 when the accident happened around 7:15 p.m. on Monday, September 15. She told the State Trooper who worked the wreck that she fell asleep at the wheel. The vehicle ran off the right shoulder of the road, hit a culvert, went airborne, and flipped multiple times before coming to a rest upside down.
Habersham EMS transported Lathan to the hospital.
The wreck was right next to Victory Baptist Church. It shut down traffic between the church and Daniel Road for more than an hour.
Photos by Daniel Purcell/Now Habersham
Correction: The driver’s name has been updated based on information provided by the Georgia State Patrol
