Mini-bike operator killed in Pickens County

A 40-year old Pickens man has been killed in an accident near his hometown, and the state patrol arrested the second driver involved in last evening’s accident.  Coroner Kandy Kelley said Jodah Mullinax, who was riding the mini-bike without a helmet, died of blunt force trauma after the patrol reported the mini-bike attempted to make a left turn into a private drive and was hit from the rear, went off the road down an embankment.  The state patrol reported the accident at 6:45 Thursday night on Midway Road, four miles north of Pickens.  According to Trooper Gary Miller, the driver of a Dodge Charger, Barney Lewis Trotter, was charged with felony driving under the influence with death.