A 24-year-old from Brantley County, Georgia was charged with multiple offenses after an accident that killed two teenage pedestrians late last week. The pedestrians were correctly walking in the lane to face oncoming traffic, but were fatally struck by a vehicle very early on Friday morning. David Batten has been charged with two counts of vehicular homicide, driving under the influence, and driving on the wrong side of the road. According to the Read More

A welder working for Vulcan Materials Company was critically injured last week when he was badly electrocuted while working in a mining facility in Keenesaw. Reportedly, the worker was using an aerial bucket truck to haul material on Duncan Road when the truck’s boom hit a 4,160-volt power line, electrocuting the welder. According to CBS Atlanta, the worker does not have life-threatening injuries but was immediately taken to WellStar Kennestone Hospital and later to...
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Georgia state troopers have begun their participation in the annual holiday season “Click it or Ticket” campaign, which began on November 14th and ends on Sunday, November 27th, according to ABC's WJBF. The Click It or Ticket (CIOT) campaign is called by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) the “most successful seat belt enforcement campaign ever, helping create the highest national seat belt usage rate of 85...
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Given the tough crackdown on Florida’s “pill mills,” it appears that Georgia may be becoming the new epicenter for patients to come and get copious amounts of controlled substances. The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Atlanta division, the DeKalb District Attorney, Georgia's Drugs and Narcotics Agency, and the Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) have recently teamed up with local law enforcement to lead raids on “pill mill” pain clinics and pharmacies in seven Georgia counties. Multiple people have been arrested in each raid, including doctors,...
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Raquel Nelson will receive a second chance to be acquitted of charges against her in a jaywalking accident that led to the death of her son. Nelson was originally found guilty by a grand jury and sentenced to a year of probation and 40 hours of community service. She requested for the judge to drop all of the charges against her, but the judge denied her request. Instead, he dropped the charge of reckless conduct and gave her the option to go to a retrial on the charges of jaywalking and vehicular homicide. According to the Read More

South African Krige Schabort, a world-class wheelchair racer, was injured in a hit-and-run accident that was allegedly caused by a man driving under the influence. Schabort was traveling with a group of six cyclists (including his son) in Cedartown, Georgia when the back wheel of his wheelchair was struck by a driver, sending him into a ditch. According to the Cedartown Standard, Schabort received a...
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Different areas of Georgia are taking proactive steps to educate the public about new child safety seat requirements as well as enforce the new law. The new Georgia child safety seat law, effective on July 1st, requires children under 8 to be properly secured in an approved car seat or booster seat while riding in cars, vans, SUV’s, and pickup trucks. Around the state, organizations have taken opportunities to make sure the public is prepared to keep their children safe by organizing events including fundraising drives to provide child seats to needy families in Albany, a child...
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