MARIETTA - Marietta police say the wrong-way driver in a crash that killed him and two members of a Braselton family Sunday was trying to escape a fender bender minutes before the fatal crash.
Police said Monday that 29-year-old Nicasio Rodrigo Vicente-Hernandez was trying to get away from a minor traffic accident about 9 p.m. Sunday.
Police learned about the earlier wreck while they were investigating the fatal crash.
Marietta police spokesman Detective Jake King said Vicente-Hernandez got onto the Canton Road Connector going the wrong way and crashed his 1999 Mercury Villager van head-on into a 1995 Ford Taurus. The driver, 47-year-old Rodney James Godfrey of Braselton, was killed, along with 17-year-old Eric Godfrey.
Fifty-one-year-old Mary Clare Godfrey and the couple's 12-year-old son were hospitalized.
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