CLERMONT, Ga. – Georgia State Patrol officials say a sheriff’s deputy caused a fiery crash that sent three people to the hospital.
The GSP said in a statement that the crash occurred around 7:45 a.m. Monday.
A Whitfield County sheriff’s deputy was traveling eastbound on Georgia State Route 52. The deputy was in the process of taking two inmates to Lee Arrendale Prison.
A Dodge truck carrying two people was traveling north on Georgia State Route 284 when the patrol car “failed to stop at a stop sign and struck the toy hauler camper that the Doge was pulling.”
The camper disconnected form the truck and overturned. The patrol car caught fire after the collision.