The Chief Investigator for the Middle Judicial Circuit of Georgia District Attorney’s Office was involved in a vehicular accident Thursday in Toombs County.
Around 1:18 Thursday afternoon, Toombs County 911 dispatched received a call that two vehicles had been involved in an accident on Highway 15 right in front of the Lakeview Memorial Gardens Cemetery near the South Thompson Community. When deputies from the Toombs County Sheriff’s Office arrived at the scene, they observed a black Dodge Charger driven by Chief Investigator Rocky Davis in the northbound ditch with significant damage to the driver’s side door with deployed airbags. The second vehicle, a black Ford Explorer SUV driven by Robert Long, Jr., of Lyons was also in the ditch.
Based on preliminary information and according to the Toombs County Sheriff’s Office, it appears that Chief Investigator Davis was headed north while Long was traveling south. Long was following behind a commercial trash truck when he attempted to pass the trash truck in a no passing zone and near a hilltop. Long applied his brakes causing his SUV to skid out of control, and even though Davis attempted to avoid impact between the two vehicles by leaving the roadway, a collision of the two machines was inevitable with Long’s SUV striking the driver’s side of the Charger.
Davis and Long both appeared to have soreness and bruising from the accident and the investigation was turned over to Post 18 of the Georgia State Patrol.