High speed may have been factor in crash that killed man, Monroe County sheriff says

Speed may have been a contributing factor in a one-car crash that killed a Monroe County man on Thursday evening, the sheriff there said Friday.

The wreck happened at about 6 p.m. on Lassiter Road, south of Indian Springs and a few miles east of Georgia Highway 42, about 10 miles north of Forsyth.

The man who died, Thomas Wade Blessitt, was at the wheel of a Hyundai Sonata, which sheriff’s officials said in a statement shot off the road in a curve east of Blue Ridge School Road before it toppled onto its side and struck a tree.

The statement said that before the car wrecked it veered across the road’s centerline and into the eastbound lane, at which point Blessitt apparently over-corrected and lost control of the car.

Joe Kovac Jr.

The Telegraph

Joe Kovac Jr. writes about local news and features for The Telegraph, with an eye for human-interest stories. Joe is a Warner Robins native and graduate of Warner Robins High. He joined the Telegraph in 1991 after graduating from the University of Georgia. As a Pulliam Fellowship recipient in 1991, Joe worked for the Indianapolis News. His stories have appeared in the Washington Post, the Seattle Times and Atlanta Magazine. He has been a Livingston Award finalist and won numerous Georgia Press Association and Georgia Associated Press awards.