The sheriff’s office said a driver passed out behind the wheel of a running car took off when a deputy woke him up, starting a high-speed chase and five-vehicle crash.
A Hall County Sheriff’s Office deputy approached a Buick Verano in front of the Chattahoochee Baptists Association and saw the driver’s foot on the brake while the car was in drive.
The driver, later identified as 28-year-old Joey Levi Ledbetter, was ordered to put the car in park but instead drove away at a “high rate of speed.”…