16 Die on Georgia Roads Over New Year’s Holiday Weekend

Sixteen people died on Georgia roadways over the New Year’s holiday weekend.

That’s according to the Georgia Department of Public Safety.

Traffic fatalities were reported in Brunswick, GA, Clayton County, Dekalb County, Gwinnett County, and Waycross, Georgia.

Ten of those 16 people were killed before midnight of New Year’s Eve.

The New Year’s holiday travel period ran from Friday, December 30, at 6:00 p.m. to 11:59 p.m., on Monday, January 2, 2023.

No traffic fatalities were reported in Franklin or Hart counties over the New Year’s holiday weekend.

Over the Christmas holiday weekend, the Georgia State Patrol reported 13 traffic fatalities, bringing the total number of deaths over the entire holiday week and both weekends to 29.

The holiday fatalities included two people who were killed Monday, December 26 in one-vehicle crash in Hart County.

According to SGT J.R. Dean with the Georgia State Patrol Hartwell Post, it happened on Georgia Highway 8 near Seed Cleaner Road in Hart County.

Dean tells WLHR News that the driver of a 2017 Chevrolet Spark was traveling westbound on GA 8 when it traveled off the north shoulder of the highway and struck a ditch.

The Chevy Spark subsequently overturned multiple times off the north shoulder of GA 8 and came to an uncontrolled final rest on its top, facing southbound.

The driver, identified as 81-year-old Frances White Morrison, and the passenger, identified as 66-year-old James Richard White, were both pronounced deceased at the crash scene.

Dean said neither occupant was wearing their seatbelt.