A man was killed in a single-car wreck on I-75 in northwest Atlanta on Monday.
The fatal crash happened about 7:30 a.m. just south of West Paces Ferry Road when a man driving south at a “high rate of speed” lost control of the vehicle and hit a tree, overturning several times, the Georgia State Patrol said in a news release. A witness told troopers he saw the vehicle travel across all lanes before leaving the road, according to the crash report obtained by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
The driver and a woman riding in the front passenger seat were thrown from the vehicle.
The driver died at the scene. He was identified by the Fulton County Medical Examiner’s Office as 53-year-old Robert Sharpe. The woman, who was identified by the GSP as 71-year-old Mabelle Jackson, was taken to Grady Memorial Hospital with serious injuries.
Two people in the back seat, identified as Raphael Mitchell, 40, of Thomasville, and LaQunicia Heard, 46, of East Point, were also seriously injured.
The crash shut down the interstate for more than three hours, according to the WSB 24-hour Traffic Center. It reopened just before 11 a.m.
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