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No students hurt in school bus accident
Groover Road bus wreck
A Liberty County Schools bus was involved in an accident early Friday morning, but no students on board were injured.
Updated: Dec 13, 2024, 3:51 PM
Published: Dec 13, 2024, 3:09 PM

A school bus accident Friday morning left the bus disabled with no students injured.
According to Georgia State Patrol Trooper Christopher Ashdown, the bus was traveling southbound on Groover Road in the unincorporated area of Liberty County around 6:30 a.m., when the driver, who had intended to turn onto Ray Road from Groover Road, slightly passed the intersection. The driver applied the brakes and attempted to steer the bus onto Ray Road. The bus skidded 53 feet on the dirt roadway and struck a tree, causing the front bumper to curl behind the tire disabling the vehicle.
Ashdown said there none of the nine students on the bus were injured. The students were placed onto another bus after being observed by medical personnel and transported to school.
The driver was cited for driving too fast for conditions.

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Early morning accident in McIntosh County kills five
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Updated: Apr 6, 2025, 6:53 PM
Published: Apr 6, 2025, 6:43 PM

Five people were killed and another one was injured following a two-vehicle accident in McIntosh County on Sunday morning.

Witnesses told Georgia State Patrol Trooper Christopher Ashdown that a Jeep Cherokee was traveling south on Interstate 95 at a high rate of speed when it rear-ended an Infiniti. The Cherokee hit a guard rail, bursting into flames. The crash and ensuing fire killed one adult and four children.

The driver of the Jeep Cherokee has been identified a Reagan Dougan, 27. GSP troopers have learned she rented the vehicle in Raleigh, N.C., and was heading to Florida to meet her husband. The children were a 9-year-old boy, a 4-year-old boy, a 2-year-old girl and a 3-month-old boy.

Ashdown said the Cherokee was a rental and authorities are in the process of identifying the victims.  The driver of the Infiniti, from Long County, was transported to Southeast Regional Health System in Brunswick with non-life-threatening injuries.

The accident occurred at mile marker 62 around 6 a.m.

 

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