Fulbright identifies American child and mother killed in accident

<p>A Georgia man remained in critical condition at a Jordan hospital Monday after surviving a car accident that killed his wife and 6-year-old son.</p><p>Joel Peckham of Milledgeville, Ga., was on an excursion tour of southern Jordan when the vehicle he was riding in struck a trailer near Ghor Safi, 75 miles southwest of the capital Amman, said the Jordanian-American Commission for Educational Exchange, known as Fulbright.</p><p>His wife, 34-year-old Susan Atefat-Peckham, and son, Cyrus, died instantly in Saturday nights accident, according to the statement from Fulbright, which administers the Fulbright scholars program. An unidentified Jordanian friend and a family tutor who was with the Peckhams also were killed.</p><p>Jordanian Civil Defense had announced Sunday that an America child and a Jordanian translator had been killed in the accident. The agency had not identified the child or mentioned his mothers death.</p><p>Joel Peckham is an English-language professor who was assigned to teach at the University of Jordan this year, according to Fulbrights statement. His wife, a native of New York City, also was a Fulbright scholar teaching poetry, creative writing and English at the university.</p>

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