One person dead, another injured after truck flips over in Warner Robins, police say

A driver was injured and a passenger was killed after they hit a utility pole in a truck and flipped in Warner Robins Thursday morning, according to police.

The Warner Robins Police Department responded to the crash around 2 a.m. near 502 South Pleasant Hill Road and found the car “overturned and resting on the driver’s side in a wooded area,” according to a news release from WRPD.

The driver, a 35-year-old, was found in the woods near the 2005 Nissan Titan with injuries to her leg, police said. The passenger, 37-year-old Omri Troy, was pronounced dead on scene. Their pickup truck was the only vehicle involved in the accident.

Officers initially responded to the scene in reference to an “accident with injuries,” the release said.

The WRPD Traffic Division took over the investigation and confirmed Rivera was driving north on South Pleasant Hill Road. The pickup truck “crossed the centerline of the roadway,” meaning the Nissan “was traveling north in the south bound lanes,” Sgt. Patrick Allen told The Telegraph.

As the vehicle traveled north, it “crossed back over the roadway and departed the pavement on the east side of South Pleasant Hill Road, police said.

The car then “struck a utility pole, overturned and continued traveling north, crossing the parking lot of 502 S. Pleasant Hill Road,” police said. Officers found the car resting “in the tree line on the north side of the parking lot.”

Police did not suspect the lane-switching to directly cause the incident, Allen said.

“Nothing was provided to officers that they almost hit another vehicle or almost caused another accident,” he said in an email to The Telegraph.

The driver was taken to a local hospital for treatment and was listed in stable condition, police said.

The Traffic Division was investigating the accident and asked anyone with information to call the police department at 478-293-1038 or Macon Regional Crime Stoppers at 478-742-2330.