Driver charged in 3-vehicle Burke County fatal crash

WAYNESBORO, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) - A driver has been arrested in relation to a fatal three-vehicle crash in Burke County earlier this year.

Georgia State Patrol says Linda Rochelle Walton Dixon, 58, of Sylvania, died after her car collided head-on with another one on Georgia Highway 24 near mile marker 14 on Jan. 31.

Troopers say a tractor-trailer was heading east on the highway at the same time a Chevy Colorado was also heading east.

Deputies said the tractor-trailer struck the Colorado’s rear bumper with its front bumper, forcing the Colorado into the westbound lane and then into the path of a Dodge Dart driven by Dixon, where they hit head-on.

Dixon was fatally injured and pronounced dead by the coroner, according to officials.

The Burke County Sheriff’s Office confirmed on Thursday that the driver of the tractor-trailer was arrested on May 28 and charged with misdemeanor homicide by vehicle, second degree.

The crash was one of four that claimed four lives within 18 hours in the CSRA.

Other local fatal crashes that weekend:

• An Aiken man was killed in a single-vehicle accident on Rushton Road near Mosley Road in Aiken County just before 2 a.m. on Feb. 1. John Boulware, 22, was driving east in a 2006 Chevrolet Silverado truck when the truck went off the right side of the road and hit a tree.
• A driver died at 2:20 p.m. on Jan. 31 in a single-vehicle crash in the 5100 block of Henderson Road in Richmond County. The vehicle was traveling east on Henderson and left the roadway, crashing into a tree. The driver was pronounced dead on the scene at 2:20 p.m. He was identified as Josiah Cadle, 68, of Hephzibah.
• A driver was killed after losing control of his vehicle in a parking lot in the 3100 block of Peach Orchard Road in Augusta at 10:30 a.m. on Jan. 31. The Jeep Grand Cherokee rolled over and Wayne Roberts, 74, of Hephzibah, was pronounced dead at a hospital at 10:13 a.m.

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