Gwinnett County police have identified a Minnesota man as the motorist killed in a wreck that shut down most northbound lanes of I-85 during Thursday’s morning commute, and they have charged another driver in the crash with vehicular homicide.
Eric Murray, 39, of Minneapolis was driving a tractor-trailer that was struck by a minivan that was attempting to merge onto I-85 northbound from Beaver Ruin Road, Gwinnett police Cpl. Edwin Ritter said.
Both vehicles lost control after the collision at 7:05 a.m. and slid off the right side of the roadway.
A passenger in the tractor-trailer, 62-year-old Bryant Garrott of Minneapolis, was taken to Gwinnett Medical Center with nonlife-threatening injuries.
The driver and sole occupant of the minivan, Maria Zeelaya Torres, 44, of Norcross, was also injured and taken to Gwinnett Medical Center.
Ritter said that after being treated for her injuries, Torres was released from the hospital and taken to the Gwinnett County Jail. There, she was charged with second-degree vehicular homicide, driving without a license and failure to maintain lane.
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