21 deaths on Georgia roads during holiday weekend
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Posted 11:25AM on Monday 2nd December 2002 ( 22 years ago )
ATLANTA - The Georgia State Patrol now says 21 people died on Georgia roads during the long Thanksgiving holiday weekend. <br>
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A total of 808 people were injured in 3,166 wrecks. <br>
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The State Patrol had predicted 21 people would be killed during the holiday that began at 6 p.m. Wednesday and ended at midnight. <br>
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Included in the toll were two people killed when an Alpharetta woman going the wrong way on Georgia 400 about 2:35 a.m. Sunday slammed head-on into a sport-utility vehicle. <br>
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Fulton County police Corporal Gary Syblis Fulton County police received a call that the northbound Toyota Camry had crashed into a southbound Ford Explorer. <br>
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The drivers of both vehicles died on impact. <br>
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Killed were 29-year-old Jennifer Dawn Swierzynski of Alpaharetta and the driver of the Explorer, 22-year-old Benjamin Eberbaugh of Dunwoody.
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