One killed, one injured in single vehicle wreck

This vehicle overturned several times. The driver was ejected and killed as the vehicle rolled

A call came in to the Miller County dispatch that an accident had occurred with injuries on the Damascus Highway approximately .6 mile north of Clay Brown Road. Miller County Sheriff's officers, the Miller County Ambulance Service and Colquitt/ Miller County Fire and Rescue trucks were sent to the scene.

A Miller County woman was killed when the vehicle that she was in overturned a number of times when she veered right off of SR 45.

On Wednesday, February 21, at 3:30 p.m., Shirley Lavette Douglas, 32, was killed instantly when the 2000 Ford Expedition that she was driving north on GA 45 overturned several times.

According to the incident report produced by the Georgia State Patrol, Ms. Douglas was travelling north on State Route 45 north of Colquitt. She travelled on the east shoulder, across a ditch and into a field where the vehicle overturned several times, ejecting the driver.

Ms. Douglas had a passenger, Antrione Moztress Foster, 25, of 350 Harpe Rd., Arlington, who was injured, but not ejected. Foster was taken to the Miller County Hospital by ambulance to be treated for multiple injuries.

There were two witnesses to the wreck.

According to the investigating officer Georgia State Trooper J. E. Miller, the contributing factors that caused the accident was that the driver lost control of the vehicle and was distracted by a cell phone.

The one vehicle accident is still under investigation by the Specialized Collision Reconstruction Team (SCRT).

The final report will be made in the near future.