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Saturday, Sep. 26, 2009

Two women killed in Laurens crash

Two people died Thursday night when their 1998 Ford F-150 pickup caught fire in an accident on Old Macon Road in Laurens County.

Debbie Denice Boyd Cook, 48, was driving north shortly before 7 p.m. when she did not stop at the intersection of Ga. 338 near Dudley and was hit in the driver’s side by a 2007 Cadillac Escalade driven by Janice J. Daniel, 60, of Dublin, said Georgia State Patrol trooper Jonathan Foskey.

Cook, of Ball’s Church Road in Jeffersonville, and her passenger Ellistine Mallory Jordon, 64, of U.S. 80 in Jeffersonville, died at the scene, Foskey said.

“We won’t truly know until after the autopsy if they expired on impact or expired due to the fire but I don’t believe they were conscious either way,” Foskey said. The collision sent both vehicles into the northeast shoulder of the road where Spence Lovett was hit on his bicycle and thrown several feet, Foskey said.

The pickup then burst into flames, he said.

Lovett, a cyclist from Dudley who is believed to be about 30 years old, suffered a broken ankle and thumb in the crash, Foskey said.

The people in the Escalade — Jordan and her 2-year-old granddaughter, Callie Daniel of Warner Robins — were treated and released from Fairview Park Hospital.

“There will be no charges as the (deceased) driver of the F-150 was at fault,” Foskey said.