Friday and Saturday traffic accidents kill two

Friday and Saturday Oconee County highway accidents have killed two of the drivers.  Both of the deceased are northeast Georgia residents. Shortly after 7 this morning a 72-year old Toccoa, Georgia pickup truck driver Chadwick B. Metcalf Jr. died in a two-vehicle accident on s. highway 11 at Hefner Road.  According to the state patrol, three people in a second pickup truck, including driver James Ray Holcombe, 39, of Walhalla, were hurt and sent to a Greenville hospital.  Late Friday afternoon on highway 76 at Thrift’s Ferry Road in Long Creek, a one-vehicle accident killed 39-year old Clayton, Georgia pickup driver Alexander “Alex” Gardner.