A Northeast Georgia teenager is dead after an ATV accident in Elbert County.
According to the Georgia State Patrol, the single-vehicle wreck happened around 7:25 p.m. on April 29 on Mobley Hill Road east of Elberton.
Elbert County Deputy Coroner Beth Seymour identified the teen as 14-year-old Colton Rousey of Elberton. She says Rousey died Saturday night, May 4, at Prisma Health Greenville Memorial Hospital in Greenville, South Carolina.
Paramedics airlifted Rousey to the hospital after the ATV he was riding ran off the road, hit a tree, and overturned, the Georgia State Patrol said.
Elbert County EMS, the Elbert County Fire Department, Elbert County Sheriff’s Office, GSP, and AnMed Life Flight responded to the incident. The Georgia State Patrol is investigating.
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