Crime & Safety

Infant in I-75 Wreck Dies; Truck Driver Charged

Six-month-old was child of Douglasville couple injured in accident caused by tractor-trailer near Windy Hill Road.

The six-month-old infant of a Douglasville couple injured in on Interstate 75 in Cobb County Saturday night has died. 

The child died Monday afternoon at Scottish Rite Hospital, according to Cobb police. 

Cobb police also said that Henry Lipps, 59, of New Albany, Ind., who was driving a tractor-trailer that caused the accident, has been charged with second-degree vehicular homicide and following too closely. Both are misdemeanor offenses. 

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He turned himself into the Cobb police Precinct 1 on Monday night, and was released on a $1,300 bond, according to police. 

Police investigators said Lipps did not brake when he approached stalled traffic on a southbound lane of I-75 north of the Windy Hill Road exit. His 18-wheeler crashed into the back of a car in which the child and two adults, Donald Morgan, 25, and Candice Morgan, 24, were riding. 

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The child was taken to Scottish Rite with critical injuries while its parents were taken to Atlanta Medical Center. Two other adults riding in another car, Ramon Mcelrathbey, 24, and Cornelius Mcelrathbey, 21, were taken to Grady Memorial Hospital. 

Two other adults in another car impacted by the crash were not injured, nor was Lipps. 

Cobb police are continuing their investigation and ask anyone with information to call 770-499-3987.


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