Story Created:
Feb 3, 2010 at 10:06 AM CDT
Story Updated:
Feb 3, 2010 at 10:06 AM CDT
ATLANTA (AP) - A Chamblee pickup driver whose passenger was ejected from the truck bed and killed has been charged with
second-degree vehicular homicide.
Sandy Springs police charged 69-year-old Jack Mize. It follows the death of 35-year-old Evilio Morales last week following an
incident on I-285 outside Atlanta.
Police say around 2 p.m. on Monday, Jan. 25, Mize sideswiped a Mercedes in the westbound lanes, then lost control of the pickup.
The truck rolled and Morales was flung from the pickup.
Mize and a passenger in the cab of the pickup suffered non-life threatening injuries.
It is illegal in Georgia to carry passengers in pickup truck beds on the interstate.
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