Update as of Tuesday, Aug. 5, 2025:
Original story posted Aug. 1, 2025:
An 80-year-old Gainesville man was killed in a crash on McEver Road in Gainesville Thursday afternoon.
A release from the Hall County Sheriff's Office said the crash happened at around 4:30 p.m. near McEver's intersection with Vineyard Way, the entrance to the McEver Vineyards apartment complex. It reportedly started when a southbound car driven by Sandra Raquel Garcia, age 36 of Gainesville, stopped in the southbound lanes of McEver Road trying to turn left into the apartment complex.
"A southbound 2014 Nissan Sentra rear-ended Garcia's vehicle, pushing it into the intersection," the sheriff's office's release said.
Garcia's vehicle was then hit by an oncoming northbound Kia Forte, driven by Brooke Allison Tortorigi, age 39 of Gainesville. Garcia and her 10-year-old passenger, along with Tortorigi, all suffered minor injuries and were taken to Northeast Georgia Medical Center for treatment.
The driver of the Nissan Sentra was also taken to NGMC where he was pronounced dead. That driver's name has not been released pending notification of next of kin, with authorities only identifying him as an 80-year-old Gainesville man.
The crash left the southbound lanes of McEver Road blocked for an hour and a half during Thursday afternoon's commute.
