Archive for July, 2009

I-85 in Coweta County was stopped for almost 3 1/2 hours on Saturday because of a series of accidents that began with a six-vehicle wreck just a few minutes before 4 p.m.

People trying to escape the standstill by illegally crossing over the grass median caused more crashes in the southbound  At least three people were flown by helicopter to Atlanta hospitals – Grady Memorial, Atlanta Medical Center and Scottish Rite. The identities and conditions of the three victims were not available.

The first involved a tractor-trailer truck and five cars at the Sharpsburg-McCollum exit. Three separate accidents followed as fast-moving cars came up on the stalled traffic.

The total accidents  is not know but happened in the area because some of them were handled by the Coweta County Sheriff. Calls to the sheriff’s office Saturday night were answered by an automated system.

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Gwinnett County police say a man kept driving after an accident, not realizing his passenger had been killed.
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Two people were killed in a car crash northbound I-85 near Monday evening.

Their 1998 Ford Explorer was traveling north on I-85 when they lost control  hitting a guardrail causing it to overturn several times south of Ga. 20 about 7:15 p.m.

Emergency responders discovered two occupants dead at the scene. One was ejected from the vehicle and the other was wearing a seat belt in the front passenger seat.

The driver, Guillermo Gamero, 35, of Texas, was transported to Gwinnett Medical Center with non-life-threatening injuries.

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Thomas Wade Costlow, 39, of Aragon, had been driving a 1991 Oldsmobile Ciera around 10 p.m. Wednesday when his car was hit head on by a 1995 Honda Civic piloted by Nicholas Stuart Carson, 35, of 4236 Etowah Drive, Acworth, GA.

Officers found several prescription medication bottles in Carson car.  Carson died in the accident and Costlow was taken via air ambulance to Atlanta Medical Center.

Carson’s car was reportedly traveling on the wrong side of the road and almost hit another vehicle before this collision.

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Two people were killed Monday night in a wreck along Interstate 85 north in Gwinnett County.
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BUFORD – All lanes of 85 northbound just south of Buford Drive were shut down for a time following a single vehicle accident Monday evening. When police and fire crews arrived they found a single vehicle off the roadway and down an embankment.
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A Waffle House employee is suing the Gwinnett County Police Department over what he says was an unprovoked encounter with an officer who stunned him with a Taser.
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A Waffle House employee is suing the Gwinnett County Police Department over what he says was an unprovoked encounter with an officer who stunned him with a Taser.
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A Waffle House employee is suing the Gwinnett County Police Department over an unprovoked encounter with an officer who stunned him with a Taser.
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A boy from Gwinnett County was seriously injured after his father crashed their car while he was intoxicated.  Victor Roma-Ioera, 26, of Dacula, was arrested after the wreck at the intersection of Buford Highway and Pleasant Hill Road.

The father was given a breathalyzer which registered a .126 blood alcohol level. The legal limit in Georgia is .08. His son Kevin Romo-salas, was sent to Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta at Scottish Rite and was then listed in critical condition with brain injuries. Mr. Romo-Ioera had previously pleaded guilty in 2005 to DUI. He was charged with serious injury by vehicle and DUI-child endangerment. He was denied bond.

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