MONROE COUNTY, Ga. — A truck driver is dead after a wreck involving three tractor-trailers in Monroe County, Georgia.
WXIA reports that the crash happened on Aug. 19. Deputies were already responding to another crash in the northbound lanes of Interstate 75 where a tractor-trailer was blocking the roadway, causing the two lanes to close.
As they were on that scene, they received a call that another wreck involving three tractor-trailers had happened.
The fatal accident was south of that initial crash near a weigh station.
WXIA reports that one tractor-trailer had rear-ended another, killing Maddyel Llanes of Cobb County, Georgia.
No other injuries were reported, and the crash remains under investigation.
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