The long Labor Day weekend continues to take a deadly toll on Georgia’s roads, with at least 16 traffic fatalities reported across the state.
Two Northeast Georgians are among the fatalities, according to Georgia State Patrol Post 52 in Hartwell. They were killed in a head-on collision on Highway 17 in Franklin County on August 31. Troopers say 36-year-old Lisa Carey of Royston and 51-year-old Jeffrey Wayne Burns of Lavonia both died at the scene.
Triple-fatal near Claxton
Three deaths in Evans County were among Georgia’s first traffic-related fatalities reported over the long holiday weekend. The head-on collision happened on U.S. Highway 301 north of Claxton on Saturday afternoon, August 31, according to the Statesboro Herald.
Three people were killed and three others injured in a two-vehicle crash on U.S. 301 north of Claxton, Georgia, on Saturday, August 31. (Credit: News Now Georgia)
The wreck involved an SUV and a large van.
In addition to the three who died, the Herald reports that two people were flown from the scene by helicopter to a Savannah trauma center, and a sixth person was taken by ambulance to East Georgia Regional Medical Center in Statesboro.