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2 killed in I-285 wreck

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Oct 18, 2014

Two people died in a fiery, early Saturday morning crash along Interstate 285 near Langford Parkway after a tractor-trailer slammed into a car.

According to a police report, at about 1:30 a.m. the tractor-trailer was northbound when it came upon a car that was either traveling extremely show or stopped.

The tractor-trailer rear-ended the car, slamming it into the median, where it burst into flames. The two people in the car died at the scene.

The tractor-trailer driver was not injured and all lanes of I-285 northbound were temporarily closed while crews worked to clear the scene.

The investigation is on-going and no charges have been filed.

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Ernie Suggs is an enterprise reporter covering race and culture for the AJC since 1997. A 1990 graduate of N.C. Central University and a 2009 Harvard University Nieman Fellow, he is also the former vice president of the National Association of Black Journalists. His obsession with Prince, Spike Lee movies, Hamilton and the New York Yankees is odd.

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