Driver charged with DUI in single-car crash that killed Warner Robins woman

A Knoxville woman was charged with DUI and vehicular homicide after her passenger died in a crash in Crawford County late on June 14.

Ashley Lee Elliott, 29, also is charged with failure to maintain lane and driving too fast for conditions in the 11 p.m. crash that killed 24-year-old Tiffani Amber Ferguson.

Elliott was at the wheel of a 2001 Toyota Camry when the car left the road, hit a ditch and spun into a tree on Ga. 42 south near Richardson Mill Road, Georgia State Patrol said in an email to The Telegraph.

Ferguson, of Warner Robins, was pronounced dead at the scene, Crawford County Sheriff Lewis Walker said in a news release.

Elliott was treated for injuries at the Medical Center, Navicent Health.

Georgia State Patrol is investigating the crash.

Elliott was booked into jail June 20 and bonded out of jail after appearing before the magistrate judge a week after the wreck.

This story was originally published June 15, 2018 at 10:02 AM with the headline "Driver charged with DUI in single-car crash that killed Warner Robins woman."