UPDATE: ‘Emergency maintenance’ continues after fatal traffic accident on Interstate 475 North
Emergency responders extracted the driver, 39-year-old Stephen Perry Croft II, from the vehicle, and he was taken to Atrium Navicent Health. Croft did not survive.
UPDATE (9:30 P.M.): “Emergency maintenance” continues following a crash Friday afternoon that left one person dead.
According to the most recent update on 511ga.org, the event’s anticipated end time is 8 a.m. on Saturday.
ORIGINAL STORY (3:07 P.M.):
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) — The Bibb County Sheriff’s Office is investigating a fatal traffic accident on Interstate 475 North, under the Zebulon Road overpass. The incident, which happened just after noon on Friday, resulted in one person’s death.
As of 3 p.m., traffic was backed-up on I-475 North and was slow moving on Zebulon Road on the overpass.
According to the Bibb County Sheriff’s Office, deputies from Bibb County and the Macon-Bibb Fire Department responded and found a Kenworth construction vehicle’s extended equipment had hit the overpass and overturned.
Emergency responders extracted the driver, 39-year-old Stephen Perry Croft II, from the vehicle, and he was taken to Atrium Navicent Health. Croft did not survive.
Three other vehicles traveling on Zebulon Road were damaged by debris. No one else was injured.
This incident is under investigation. Anyone with information in reference to this fatal traffic accident is urged to contact the Bibb County Sheriff’s Office at (478) 751-7500 and ask to speak with a fatality investigator.
