Victim identified in 3-vehicle Burke County fatal crash
WAYNESBORO, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) - The Georgia State Patrol released the name of the 58-year-old woman killed in a three-vehicle crash in Burke County on Friday.
The crash was one of four that claimed four lives within 18 hours in the CSRA.
In the Burke County crash, troopers said Linda Rochelle Walton Dixon, of Sylvania, died after her vehicle collided head-on with another one.
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Officials say the accident occurred on Georgia Highway 24 near mile marker 14 in Burke County on Friday morning.
According to the Georgia State Patrol, a tractor-trailer was heading east on the highway at the same time a Chevy Colorado was also heading east.
Deputies said the tractor-trailer struck the Colorado’s rear bumper with its front bumper, forcing the Colorado into the westbound land and then into the path of a Dodge Dart driven by Dixon, where they hit head-on.
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Dixon was fatally injured and pronounced dead by the coroner, according to officials.
The highway was shut down from 8:20 a.m. until 12:22 p.m.
Other local fatal crashes Friday and Saturday:
- An Aiken man was killed in a single-vehicle accident on Rushton Road near Mosley Road in Aiken County just before 2 a.m. Saturday. John Boulware, 22, was driving east in a 2006 Chevrolet Silverado truck when the truck went off the right side of the road and hit a tree.
- A driver died at 2:20 p.m. Friday in single-vehicle crash in the 5100 block of Henderson Road in Richmond County. The vehicle was traveling east on Henderson and left the roadway, crashing into a tree. The driver was pronounced dead on the scene at 2:20 p.m. He was identified as Josiah Cadle, 68, of Hephzibah.
- A driver was killed after losing control of his vehicle in a parking lot in the 3100 block of Peach Orchard Road in Augusta at 10:30 a.m. Friday. The Jeep Grand Cherokee rolled over and the driver was pronounced dead at a hospital.
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