3/29/17

By: Rob Moore 

accident 9-4-15

(Cleveland)-A 10-year-old Cleveland boy was listed in serious but stable condition at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta Tuesday night after a morning wreck south of Cleveland.

That’s according to Trooper 1st Class Jordan Stamey of Georgia State Patrol Post 6 in Gainesville, who investigated the three-vehicle wreck that injured the child just after 7:30 Tuesdaymorning on Ga. 11 (U.S. 129) at Rogers Road.

Stamey explained the wreck as follows:

A 2004 Ford F-150 pickup truck driven by Jancedyn Terry, 17, of Cleveland was stopped on Rogers Road facing west at its intersection with Ga. 11, Stamey said.

A 2002 Kia Sportage driven by Christopher Wills, 39, of Cleveland was traveling north on Ga. 11 approaching the intersection with Rogers Road.

A 2007 Peterbilt tractor with empty flatbed trailer driven by Lamar Webster, 62, of Cleveland, was traveling south on Ga. 11 in the right lane negotiating a curve as it approached the intersection with Rogers Road.

Terry’s vehicle failed to yield and turned right into the path of Wills’ Kia, Stamey said. Wills steered left in an attempt to avoid impact, then traveled into the left southbound lane of Ga. 11 and Wills steered to the right.

No contact was made between Terry’s pickup truck and Wills’ Kia.

When the Kia re-entered the northbound lane, Wills over-corrected to the left and lost control, Stamey said. The vehicle then began to rotate counter-clockwise as it crossed the northbound lane and traveled into the southbound lane.

At that time, the tractor-trailer was changing into the left southbound lane, according to Stamey. The Kia struck the left rear wheel of the tractor with its right front fender. After that initial contact, the Kia then struck the tractor trailer in the left side and left rear wheel of the trailer with its right front corner. After the second impact, the Kia came to rest in the road facing east.

Terry was not injured, and Stamey said his vehicle didn’t make contact with any other vehicle.

Wills and his wife, Jamie Wills, 36, of Cleveland were injured and were taken by ambulance for treatment, according to Stamey. They were treated and released for what he called minor injuries.

Their son, Kaeden Wills, 10, of Cleveland, was taken by ambulance to Northeast Georgia Medical Center, then was airlifted to Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, where he was listed in serious but stable condition Tuesday night, Stamey said.

All three occupants in the Kia were wearing seatbelts, but due to the angle of the collisions there was no airbag deployment in the vehicle, Stamey said.

The wreck remains under investigation and citations are pending, Stamey said.

The crash was reported to White County E-9-1-1 at 7:33 a.m., and shut down Ga. 11 (U.S. 129) in the area until about 9:15 a.m.