Family of UGA student killed in drunk driving incident seek justice years later, suspect still not found

A damages hearing was held in the Athens-Clarke County courthouse on Tuesday, Feb. 17 for a civil wrongful death lawsuit between Beth Buchanan’s family and Cesar Raudales Macias.

Beth Buchanan died in February of 2023 in a wrong-way drunk driving crash on University Parkway in Barrow County when driving her mother to the airport. The suspected drunk driver remains a fugitive.

Beth Buchanan’s family is asking for $50 million in damages, according to the family’s counsel Robert Snyder…

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