A Hall County Jury convicted this week an Oakwood man who injured two people in a 2022 car crash in Flowery Branch.
District Attorney Lee Darragh said Jonathan Kale Jeffries, 51 was charged with seven counts of serious injury by vehicle, reckless driving, failure to wear seatbelt and running a red light.
Jefferies caused a crash on Dec. 16, 2022, at the intersection of Atlanta Highway and Phil Niekro Blvd in Flowery Branch.
According to court documents, Jeffries was driving down Atlanta Highway at around 6:40 p.m. and as he approached a red light he accelerated.
The evidence showed he did not break instead he split the left turn lane and the straight lane with two stopped cars already waiting at the red light, drove in between them, ran the red light and accelerated into the intersection where he T-boned another vehicle.
That other vehicle was carrying two sisters, a 23-year-old med school student and an 18-year-old college freshman. Their vehicle was forced into a pole.
Jeffries vehicle overturned and came to a stop upside down.
The 23-year-old suffered two broken ribs and a punctured lung.
The 18-year-old suffered a traumatic brain injury, a fractured pelvis, a lacerated liver, a punctured lung, and fractured ribs. She is still suffering from a likely permanent brain injury.
The jury convicted Jeffries on four out of seven of the serious injury counts, the reckless driving and the two other traffic offenses.
Sentencing is not yet scheduled but Jeffries was taken into custody Thursday.
He was convicted before Superior Court Judge Lindsay Burton.
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