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A bicyclist has died after being struck by a pickup truck on a busy Decatur thoroughfare Monday morning.  The cyclist was riding in the inside lane of four-lane North Decatur Road near Willivee Dr. when he was hit by a Ford Ranger pickup shortly before 6:30 a.m., according to Decatur police Capt. Scott Richards.  Richards said the 53-year-old man, whose name has not been released, was taken to DeKalb Medical Center, where he died.

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Professional wrestler Marcus “Buff” Bagwell may have suffered a seizure just before he was seriously injured when he flipped his Jeep, according to police reports.  Bagwell remained in intensive care Wednesday with several broken bones in his neck, face and jaw two days after the Cherokee County wreck.  Bagwell, 42, was northbound on Buckhead Crossing around 1:35 p.m. Monday when he called his wife to tell her he was going to have a seizure, the Woodstock police report states.  He then turned left onto Running Deer Parkway, where his 2005 Jeep Wrangler hit the curb for several hundred feet, according to police.  Investigators believe Bagwell, who lives in Woodstock with his wife, then made a sharp left turn that caused his Jeep to spin across the raised median and roll over, police said.  Bagwell was transported by ambulance to WellStar Kennestone Hospital, Marietta, where he remains sedated due to the extent of his injuries.
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In Atlanta a SUV driver traveling the wrong way on Interstate 85 slammed into a Greyhound bus.  The accident happened just before 5 a.m. near Pleasantdale Rd in DeKalb County.  The driver, who was not identified, was driving northbound on southbound I-85 when the accident occurred.  DeKalb County Police said the driver was taken to an area hospital.  Nobody on the bus was injured.  Police are trying to determine why the driver was going the wrong way on I-85.
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In Cartersville, Georgia one person is dead after a car and a motorcycle collided in Cartersville.  The accident happened at the intersection of Highway 113 and Picklesimer Road.  Georgia State Patrol officials said a Nissan Altima pulled into the path of a motorcycle.  The motorcycle hit the Nissan, ejecting the rider.  The motorcyclist was then hit and killed by another car, according to officials.  He was identified as 24-year-old William McCullar of Moultrie.  No charges have been filed in this case. The investigation is ongoing.
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For the second time in less than a week, a weave thief targeting high-dollar hair extensions used a stolen vehicle to ram through the front of an Atlanta beauty supply store.  About 4:30 a.m. Wednesday, a man drove a U-Haul truck through the front of J&J Beauty Supply in the 2000 block of Sylvan Road before running off with a box of hair weaves.  Atlanta police Capt. Adam Lee III told the AJC that the truck was apparently stolen from a nearby business.  “The owner is assessing how much was stolen and the damage,” Lee said. “It looks like the damage is far more extensive than what was taken.”  Lee said the burglar in Wednesday’s heist was apparently working alone. He said detectives were examining security video of the incident.
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A Cartersville man died after a wrong-way wreck late Tuesday night in north Cobb County.  Cobb police Sgt. Dana Pierce said the two-car crash happened shortly before midnight on Cobb Parkway near Dallas Acworth Highway.  Pierce said investigators believe Brandon R. Meadors, 41, of Cartersville, was driving a 2003 Chevrolet S-10 pickup truck southbound in the the northbound lanes of Cobb Parkway when the pickup collided with a 2009 BMW 335i driven by Michael L. Wilson, 24, of Acworth.  Meadors was taken to Wellstar Kennestone Hospital in Marietta, where he later died, Pierce said.  He said Wilson was taken to Wellstar Kennestone with non-life-threatening injuries.
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Authorities are continuing to investigate a boat collision on Lake Lanier that killed a Duluth man and seriously injured a Milledgeville woman near East Bank Park in Buford around midnight Saturday.   Read the rest of this entry »

The Georgia State Patrol is investigating the death of a person who was struck several times and killed on I-75 in Bartow County.  GSP spokesman Gordy Wright said a Bartow sheriff’s deputy found the body around 1:35 a.m. in the interstate’s northbound lanes near Glade Road after he stopped to check on a vehicle on the shoulder.  “The person had been hit multiple times by oncoming traffic,” Wright said in a statement. “It appears the person was in the travel lanes when the initial impact occurred.”  Authorities believe a large vehicle, possibly a truck, hit the pedestrian first, and they were on the lookout for a vehicle that would have damage consistent with striking a pedestrian.  Wright said the GSP is working with the Bartow sheriff’s office and coroner’s office to identify the person and notify the next of kin.
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A wreck involving a school bus slowed traffic in Douglas County Tuesday morning.  County officials said the accident happened on Riverside Parkway east of Fairburn Rd.  There were no immediate reports of any injuries.  The wreck is still under investigation.
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Authorities say six people have been hospitalized after a large tree fell on a transit bus in southwest Atlanta.
MARTA spokeswoman Lyle Harris says that six of the 40 passengers on the bus were taken to Grady Memorial Hospital. He said seven other passengers complained of injuries.  Harris said the injuries do not appear to be life-threatening, and that many of the people were complaining of back pain.  Harris said the tree fell around 10 a.m. Thursday near Campbellton and Stanton roads.  The bus is part of the Metropolitan Atlanta Regional Transit Authority.
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