Man charged after passenger thrown from truck bed

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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.