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Driver killed in crash with MARTA bus identified

By Steve Visser
Oct 13, 2014

The driver who was killed when his car collided with a MARTA bus has been identified as Ricky Kindrick, 49, of Union City.

Kindrick died when his northbound car crashed head-on into a southbound bus on Roosevelt Highway near Global Gateway Connector at 8:30 a.m. Sunday, said Lyle Harris of MARTA.

The autopsy is not yet completed, according to investigators at the Fulton County Medical Examiner office.

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