ATHENS, Ga. (FOX26) — More than a year after a high-speed drunk-driving crash killed University of Georgia PhD student Beth Buchanan, her family in Fresno has been awarded $56.5 million in damages in a wrongful death case.
Meanwhile, the man accused of causing the crash, Cesar Raudales Macias of Athens, remains on the run.
The damages award stems from a February 2023 crash, when investigators say Macias caused a head-on crash in the community of Winder, about 50 miles east of Atlanta…