A Rocky Face man remained hospitalized on Monday and a man remains in jail on an immigration hold after a collision between a pickup truck and motorcycle Friday night in Tunnel Hill, authorities said.
Larry Stewart, 61, was driving a motorcycle north on Highway 41 just before 8 p.m. with his granddaughter on back when a 2003 Chevrolet S-10 pickup driven by Jose Jorge Patino-Monroy, 26, of 3720 Water Tower Lane, Tunnel Hill, pulled into its path off Campbell Road, officials said.
Stewart was airlifted to Erlanger Hospital in Chattanooga, where a spokeswoman said he was in “fair” condition Monday afternoon. His granddaughter, 7-year-old Baylee Martin, was taken by ambulance to Hamilton Medical Center with abrasions and cuts on one of her legs. A Georgia State Patrol operator said the wreck was almost a head-on collision since Patino-Monroy was on the wrong side of the road.
Stewart’s wife, Patricia Calfee Stewart, called his condition “critical” when contacted at Erlanger on Monday.
“His right femur is broken (and) both ankles are crushed,” she said. “He had surgery for 10 hours on Saturday, surgery for two hours on Monday morning and he has to go back into surgery, probably on Wednesday. He has no skin on his ankles and they don’t have any tissue to hold the (surgical) plates and stuff in place. So they’re talking about skin grafts (being) the best procedure to try to save his foot. He’s in what I would call critical condition, horrible pain. Our granddaughter has some road rash and stitches on her right leg from bad gashes, but no broken bones and no internal injuries.”
Patino-Monroy was charged by the state patrol with leaving the scene of an accident, driving without a valid license, failure to yield right of way, failure to report an accident with injuries, driving on the wrong side of the road and causing serious injury by vehicle, a felony. He is on an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) hold at the county jail, a spokeswoman said.
Patino-Monroy will make a bond appearance in Whitfield County Superior Court today, a clerk said. District Attorney Kermit McManus said he is not familiar with the case, but that if Patino-Monroy is given a bond, ICE officials must decide whether to let him make the bond and go free or come and get him for detention at their facility near Atlanta.
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July 27, 2010
Motorcyclist seriously hurt in wreck with illegal alien
Granddaughter also injured
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Police and Fire Games: Dalton firefighter snags second place
Mason Martin, back right, cheers on his mother, Serena Martin, an officer with the Dalton Police Department, as she pushes a patrol car as part of an obstacle course to determine the “Toughest Overall” during the Georgia Police and Fire Games on Monday at the Whitfield County Sheriff’s Department’s firing range. (Misty Watson/The Daily Citizen)
A seasoned Dalton firefighter placed second in the Toughest Overall Competitor event at the Police and Fire Games in Dalton on Monday.
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