Students, colleagues mourn death of teacher

<p>Staff and students at a middle school in northeast Georgia are mourning the death of a teacher who died in a car crash about a mile from the school.</p><p>Forty-three-year-old Lisa Anderson was pronounced dead at a hospital in Atlanta after her car collided with a truck on Georgia 316. She taught advanced language arts at Malcolm Bridge Middle School near Bogart in Oconee County and was also a cross country coach.</p><p>Troopers with the Georgia State Patrol post in Athens say Anderson was running an errand after school about 4:30 p.m. Wednesday when her car collided with a pickup truck. She was flown by helicopter to Atlanta Medical Center and pronounced dead about 8 p.m.</p><p>Anderson -- who lived in Watkinsville -- is survived by a husband and two children, one a North Oconee High School student and the other a Malcom Bridge Middle School student.</p><p>The wreck is the second this year in which an Oconeee County teacher died.</p><p>A teacher and assistant varsity coach at North Oconee High School -- Shawn Smith -- was killed in a car crash in June in Alabama, in which three students athletes were injured.</p>

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