Crime & Safety

Mill Creek Student Killed in Weekend Car Accident

Driver facing multiple charges.

UPDATED Nov. 29 at 2 p.m.

A Gwinnett County man is facing multiple charges in connection with a Nov. 26 accident that killed a student.

Georgia State Patrol spokesman Gordy Wright said Zachary Morgan Holman, 16, and his sister Madison Holman, 11, were passengers in a 1998 Ford pickup truck being driven by Ralph Edward Whitmire Jr., 40, of Lawrenceville. According to Wright, Whitmire was traveling westbound on Bethany-Bowersville Road in Hart County at approximately 6:45 p.m. on Saturday when the vehicle left the roadway, hit a ditch and overturned. The vehicle came to rest upside down and all three occupants were ejected.

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Holman died at the scene. Whitmire was taken to AnMed Medical Center in Anderson, S.C. where he was treated and released according to a hospital spokeswoman. Madison Holman is currently listed in fair condition at the Greenville Hospital System's Children's Hospital.

Whitmire has been charged with second-degree vehicular homicide, failure to maintain lane, seat belt violation, no proof of insurance and driving with suspended, canceled or revoked registration.

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