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Updated: 6:03 PM Jul 3, 2009
Police say road rage may have lead to fiery crash that killed Kentucky family
New information was released Friday on an investigators into a fiery crash along Interstate 75 in Georgia. Four members of a Kentucky family died in the crash, on their way to Florida for vacation. One of the family members planned to audition for American Idol while there. Posted: 5:57 PM Jul 2, 2009Reporter: Wendy Enneking Email Address: wendy.enneking@wkyt.com |
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Investigators continue piecing together clues in a crash that killed four members of a central Kentucky family. The crash, along Interstate 75 in Valdosta, Georgia, happened early Thursday morning.
Georgia authorities say 40-year-old Jerome Roberts was driving the family's car when he somehow became engaged in an incident with another vehicle on the road. The driver of that car was reportedly on the phone with 911, reporting Roberts was trying to run him off the road, when the crash happened. Police tell the Valdosta newspaper the two vehicles had practically stopped in the middle of the road when a Penske moving truck slammed into them. They say the truck driver could not avoid the collision.
Witnesses were able to pull Roberts from the smoking car, but it burst into flames before they could get 41-year-old Cheryl Collins, their 11-year-old daughter Auguste Roberts and Collins' 20-year-old daughter, MaRhonda Collins, out of the wreckage. The coroner tells the newspaper all three died in the fire.
A prescription pill bottle found at the scene helped authorities identify the family. Other family members, who were on their way to Georgia to claim the bodies Thursday night told 27 NEWSFIRST MaRhonda Collins was on her way to audition for American Idol while in Florida.
Funeral arrangements are still pending but family members say they expect all four will be laid to rest in Georgetown.
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Better think twice, before you retaliate against someone elses driving. Let it go and get away from them. Give up the attitude, "Watch this, I'll show them" might be the last thing you show anyone.
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I don't understand why both cars were stopped in the middle of the road? Were they side by side, was one blocking the other, I have read several different stories, to me the surviving car was just as in the wrong as the Roberts car. Is it possible that the other driver is covering up his own actions as well?Honestly, who would want to admit that they could have possibly maybe had something to do with that horrible accident. The interstate is pretty much a straight stretch, so why didn't the rental truck slow down before he got to the cars, couldn't he tell there was two cars that were not moving? It was late, I'd assume all the drivers probably wasn't as alert as they should have been, I don't think one person should be blamed for the whole thing, seems like there could be other factors that attributed to the accident.
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Some of you people are really stupid and can't read. The two cars DID NOT wreck before the truck hit them. They were STOPPED in the middle of the road (more than likely flipping the bird and threatening each other). The truck hit them while they were stopped. Have you ever driven in that area? You have to drive 80mph or better just to keep up with traffic. If you go slower, YOU get run over. It is not easy to stop a truck once you realize something is wrong ahead. It was TWO CARS stopped: NOT everybody else. Yes, going faster than the speed limit is wrong but you would have to arrest everybody in that area because NOBODY drives the speed limit in that area. Learn to read before you comment!
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