A Toccoa man and woman were injured Saturday when the SUV they were traveling in wrecked and overturned on GA-365 in Mt. Airy.
The Georgia State Patrol says the single-vehicle crash may have been the result of a road rage incident involving another driver.
72-year-old Gailand Bay of Toccoa was driving south in a 2003 Ford Explorer when he ran into the median of the highway just past Cody Road. Troopers say Gailand overcorrected. The Explorer traveled across the southbound lanes to the west shoulder where it struck a guardrail. The SUV then overturned.
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65-year-old Deborah Parker was a passenger in the vehicle. Habersham Emergency Services says both occupants had to be freed from the wreckage.
EMS transported them by ambulance to Northeast Georgia Medical Center in Gainesville with non-life threatening injuries.
Sgt. First Class Chad Johnson with Georgia State Patrol Post 7 in Toccoa says witnesses reported seeing the Explorer and a small black car “jockeying for position” on the highway prior to the wreck.
The car left the scene. Witnesses stopped to render aid.
The wreck shut down the southbound lanes of the highway near the crash site for approximately two hours.
