Teen injured in Rabun County wreck

(NowHabersham.com)

A wreck Wednesday evening in Rabun County injured two people, including a teen who was sent to the hospital with suspected serious injuries.

The accident happened around 6:52 p.m. on October 11 on GA 15/US 441 at Yorkhouse Drive near Mountain City.

Georgia State Patrol Post 7 in Toccoa investigated the crash. According to the GSP report, Dalysse McCracken, 16, of Lakemont, was driving a Honda CRV. As she attempted to cross into the southbound lanes of Highway 441 from a gas station parking lot, troopers say McCracken pulled into the path of a northbound Nissan Pathfinder.

The Pathfinder struck the Honda on the driver’s side.

Emergency personnel transported McCracken to Northeast Georgia Medical Center in Gainesville with suspected serious injuries.

The Nissan driver, Katherine Preston, 40, of Franklin, North Carolina, sustained possible minor injuries. She was not transported to the hospital, according to GSP. Her 12-year-old passenger, Wyatt Preston, was uninjured.