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Officer, others not hurt in Saturday night collision
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Published: Dec 15, 2024, 6:05 PM

A Hinesville police officer was involved in a vehicle accident Saturday night while responding to a call.
According to the Georgia State Patrol, which is investigating the accident, the officer was responding to a call he was dispatched to shortly after 10 p.m. with lights and sirens when a vehicle pulled out in front of his patrol car on 15th Street and Tattnall Drive. When the vehicles collided the patrol car came to a stop in a grassy area of Governor’s Boulevard.
The officer was not injured, and two people in the passenger car was taken to Liberty Regional Medical Center in Hinesville with non-life-threatening injuries.  A 6-year-old child riding in the vehicle was not injured.

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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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