LAGRANGE —
Authorities have released the names of five people killed in a head-on collision that injured two others southwest of LaGrange.
Georgia State Patrol officials say both drivers died in the Friday night crash. They were identified as 28-year-old Willie L. Hooks; and 23-year-old Melanie Kay Lemmon, both of LaGrange.
The Columbus Ledger-Enquirer reports (http://bit.ly/WEJwgc) that three passengers in Lemmon’s car were also killed. They were identified as 1-year-old Quamauri C. Harrison; 37-year-old Miranda L. Hurston; and Tridarius Harrison, whose age was unavailable.
The State Patrol said Hooks was driving a northbound Oldsmobile Cutlass and was passing a vehicle in a no-passing zone when his car collided with a southbound Pontiac Grand Am being driven by Lemmon.
Two more people were critically injured and airlifted to hospitals in Atlanta and Columbus.
State News
February 11, 2013
Patrol releases names of 5 killed in head-on crash
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