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Marietta woman dies weeks after dump truck crash

This car collided with a dump truck on Roswell Road in Cobb County earlier this month. JOHN SPINK / JSPINK@AJC.COM
This car collided with a dump truck on Roswell Road in Cobb County earlier this month. JOHN SPINK / JSPINK@AJC.COM
By Raisa Habersham
March 27, 2017

A Cobb County woman who had been in the hospital died Friday, more than two weeks after a dump truck crashed into her car.

Nicole Garrison, 30, of Marietta, had been suffering from injuries related to the March 9 crash, Cobb County police spokeswoman Officer Alicia Chilton said.

RELATED: Woman seriously injured in Cobb crash

According to police, Garrison was driving on Roswell Road when a Ford dump truck — driven by Martin Palma, 48, of Rome — made a U-turn and slammed into her Mazda.

Palma, who was not injured in the crash, faces second-degree vehicular homicide and improper U-turn charges.

No other details were released.

In other news:

The truck crashed off I-575 during the morning rush hour killing a man in his 30's.

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Raisa Habersham is the Intown Atlanta hyperlocal reporter for The Atlanta-Journal Constitution.

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