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Flowery Branch driver charged in fatal April crash

By AccessWDUN staff

A Flowery Branch man now has been charged in connection with a deadly wreck that happened on Atlanta Highway in April. 

Hall County Sheriff's Office spokesman Derreck Booth said Kenneth Howard Gragg, 69, was booked into the Hall County Jail on Thursday, Aug. 12. 

"He is charged with second-degree homicide by vehicle and failure to maintain lane in the April 27 afternoon wreck on Ga. 13/Atlanta Highway, just south of Friendship Road," Booth said in a press statement. "According to the initial investigation, Gragg was driving northbound on Atlanta Highway from Ledford Road in a 2000 Oldsmobile Bravada. His SUV struck the center median and became airborne, colliding with a southbound 2012 Ford Fusion."

The driver of the Fusion, Grisel Alvarez Martinez, 64, of Oakwood, died in the crash.

Gragg also was injured and hospitalized following the wreck.

 

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