A Habersham County man has been charged in connection with a three-vehicle wreck that sent him and another driver to the hospital on Thursday. Troopers charged 80-year-old Charles Stockton with failure to obey a traffic signal following the wreck at GA 15/US 441 and Talmadge Drive.
According to the Georgia State Patrol’s preliminary crash investigation, Stockton was driving a Chevrolet C150 pickup truck north on Hwy. 441 when he ran the red light at the intersection. The pickup struck a Toyota RAV4 that was crossing the highway. The pickup then struck a GMC C4C work truck that was also crossing the intersection.
Habersham County EMS transported Stockton to Northeast Georgia Medical Center in Gainesville with serious injuries.
The crash also seriously injured the RAV 4 driver, Vera Mercer, of Clarkesville. An ambulance transported her to NGMC in Demorest for treatment.
The driver of the commercial truck, 82-year-old Bobby White, was not injured, according to troopers.
Georgia State Patrol Post 7 in Toccoa investigated the crash along with GSP’s Specialized Collision Reconstruction Team (SCRT) and State Motor Carrier Compliance Division (MCCD).
The wreck disrupted traffic for more than two hours as law enforcement investigated and tow trucks cleared the wreckage.
