Motorcyclist killed, driver charged with DUI

By David Ibata

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

A Clayton County family says speed bumps along a hazardous stretch of road could have prevented the death of a 24-year-old man who was struck and killed while riding his motorcycle over the weekend, Channel 2 Action News reports.

Franky J. Cassidy died after a man who allegedly was driving drunk ran into him head-on about 4 a.m. Saturday on Burbank Trail in Morrow, in the subdivision where Cassidy lived. The motorcyclist was coming home from work at the time.

Morrow police said Marvlyn Eugene Martin, 34, of Hampton was driving a white Honda Accord in the wrong lane when the crash occurred.

“I just sit here and think, wow, that last moment when Franky just couldn't go nowhere and saw this guy coming at him,” Felix Cruz, Cassidy’s stepfather, told Channel 2.

Relatives said drivers speed to get up the hill, and when they do, they often drift into the opposite lane.

Now, Cruz said, "I want to do whatever we can do to have some speed bumps.”

Martin had a blood-alcohol count of .192 percent, more than double the legal limit, police told Channel 2.

Martin was charged with homicide by vehicle, driving under the influence, having an open container of alcohol in his car and other traffic violations, according to the Clayton County Sheriff’s Office. He was being held without bond on the vehicular homicide charge Monday in Clayton County Jail.