One of Northeast Georgia’s most scenic highways is back open to traffic after a late-night wreck Tuesday shut down a portion of it for several hours.
A tractor-trailer loaded with building supplies wrecked on Richard B. Russell Highway just north of Helen around 10:19 p.m. on August 23. The cab ran into a ditch, spilling the supplies onto the highway, and blocking both lanes of travel.
The Helen Fire Department responded with mutual aid from White County.
The single-vehicle wreck did not injure the truck driver who was able to “exit the vehicle without assistance,” says White County Public Safety Public Information Office Bryce Barrett.
Crews worked through the night to reopen the road to through traffic.
