The Fulton County Medical Examiner’s Office Tuesday identified the woman struck by a minivan and killed on the Downtown Connector early Monday as 57-year-old Meridian O. Jemmott.
Jemmott’s hometown was not known, according to the Medical Examiner’s office.
She died after being hit around 6 a.m. on I-75/85 northbound near south of 10th Street. The accident tied up rush hour traffic for nearly two hours.
Atlanta police Sgt. Greg Lyon said German Castellon told investigators he was driving his 1997 GMC minivan northbound in the right travel lane at about 50 mph when he “heard a crash.”
“He pulled to the side of the road and discovered that he had struck the victim,” Lyon told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
Lyon said no charges are anticipated, as “evidence on the scene indicated that the victim was in the travel lane when she was struck.”
Authorities initially shut down all northbound lanes of the connector, but were able to reopen three of the lanes by 6:30 a.m., and had all northbound lanes open by 8 a.m.
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