Macon man in car stopped on Eisenhower Parkway is killed when car slams into him
A Macon man died Sunday of injuries he suffered in a car wreck that happened shortly after midnight Saturday. The man who was killed was sitting at the wheel of a car that, for reasons as yet unclear, had stopped along a well-traveled south Macon thoroughfare.
The victim, Sonny Chatman Jr., of a Canterbury Road address half a mile or so from the crash scene, died later at a hospital, Bibb County Coroner Leon Jones said.
Bibb sheriff’s officials said the crash happened at about 12:30 a.m. just west of the Interstate 75 interchange at Eisenhower Parkway near Laveta Drive, just east of Pio Nono Avenue.
The officials said in a statement that Chatman was in a 2007 Honda Accord that was parked in the roadway when it was struck by an eastbound 2018 Dodge Charger.
The driver of the Dodge, a person from Alabama, was not hurt.
Further details of the wreck were not available at midday Monday.
But sheriff’s Lt. Sean DeFoe said that according to a witness the Honda that Chatman was in was parked in the left lane of eastbound Eisenhower with its lights off when the Dodge hit the Honda from behind.
This story was originally published October 18, 2021 at 11:26 AM.