A judge in Georgia awarded more than $50 million to the family of a Ph.D. student who was killed by an alleged drunk driver in a wrong-way crash while she was driving her mother to the airport.
Beth Buchanan, 23, was driving her mother to the Atlanta airport shortly after 3 a.m. on Feb. 13, 2023, when the suspect, Cesar Raudales Macias, allegedly made an illegal U-turn on University Parkway near Patrick Mill Road SW in Winder, which is roughly 40 miles from downtown Atlanta.
Macias, then 25, began driving the wrong way down University and slammed head-on into Buchanan’s Kia Soul, according to the suit…