A driver has been charged in connection with a chain reaction crash, one of two accidents that blocked southbound lanes of the Downtown Connector at Langford Parkway early Wednesday.

Four cars were involved in that crash and one person was taken to Grady Memorial Hospital with minor injuries.

“The at-fault driver was charged with following too closely,” the Georgia State Patrol said in a statement.

No other information was released about the person charged.

The drivers in the second accident declined to make a report, according to the GSP.

The crashes created big delays for people headed to Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, according to the WSB 24-hour Traffic Center.

Atlanta police officers and Georgia Department of Transportation crews cleared the scene a short time later.

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Fulton DA Fani Willis (center) with Nathan J. Wade (right), the special prosecutor she hired to manage the Trump case and had a romantic relationship with, at a news conference announcing charges against President-elect Donald Trump and others in Atlanta, Aug. 14, 2023. Georgia’s Supreme Court on Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2025, upheld an appeals court's decision to disqualify Willis from the election interference case against Trump and his allies. (Kenny Holston/New York Times)

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