Long Creek highway fatality

A one-vehicle accident around 4 pm yesterday in Long Creek took the life of a Georgia man.  He was 62-year old Tony O. Smith of Blue Ridge, Georgia. State trooper Gary Miller said a 2017 Chevrolet Silverado pickup truck hit guardrail and went off the right side of the highway and overturned.  At the time, the truck was east bound.  Miller said the man was extricated from the wreckage and pronounced dead.