Thursday November 28th, 2024 3:31PM

Suwanee man killed, Cumming man injured in wrong-way crash on I-85

By The Associated Press
ATLANTA (AP) Police have identified the driver killed in a wrong-way crash on a metro Atlanta interstate over the weekend as 27-year-old Keith F. Smith of Suwanee. <br /> <br /> DeKalb County police say that Smith's 2001 Mercedes exploded in flames when it collided with a southbound rental truck around 1:30 a.m. Saturday on Interstate 85 South. <br /> <br /> Police said the Mercedes was driving the wrong way on the interstate and crashed head-on into the rental truck. <br /> <br /> The driver of the truck, George Saunders of Cumming, was taken to Grady Memorial Hospital. His condition wasn't available. <br /> <br /> The wreck closed the southbound lanes of I-85 for about four hours early Saturday. <br />
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