‘Light of our program:’ Beloved metro Atlanta teacher, coach dies in crash

A longtime high school coach and educator is being remembered across Hall County after she was killed in a single-vehicle crash along Interstate 985 earlier this week.

The Flowery Branch Police Department says officers, along with Georgia State Patrol, responded Tuesday night to a traffic accident with unknown injuries on I-985 northbound near Exit 12.

Georgia State Patrol says a white Ford F-150 was traveling northbound on I-985 around 8:14 p.m., when for some unknown reason the driver, identified as Sylvia Akers, failed to maintain her lane, left the roadway and flipped multiple times before the truck came to a rest on its side…

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