Tow truck driver passes one day after roll over accident -06.20.23 (GA)

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Tow truck driver seriously injured in rollover wreck on Cannon Bridge Road

 

 

A construction tow truck driver was seriously injured when the truck ran down an embankment and overturned. The accident happened around 3:10 p.m. Tuesday, June 20, on Cannon Bridge Road in Demorest. The Georgia State Patrol has identified the driver as 40-year-old Corey Derring of Maysville.

 

State troopers say Derring was driving the Kenworth rollback south on Cannon Bridge Road when he traveled into the northbound lane.

 

The preliminary accident report states the driver “overcorrected [and] traveled off the west shoulder of Cannon Bridge” before traveling down the embankment.

 

The truck, owned by KNS Towing, landed upside down on its roof in a creek bed. It was towing a Ford F-350 at the time of the accident.

 

Emergency personnel transported Derring to Northeast Georgia Medical Center in Gainesville for treatment. State troopers have not filed any charges against him.

 

The wreck shut down Cannon Bridge Road between Old Cleveland Road and Smith Loop Road for more than four hours.

 

GSP says its investigation into the wreck is ongoing at this time.

 

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UPDATE: Maysville man dies day after Demorest wreck

 

A tow truck driver involved in a rollover crash Tuesday on Cannon Bridge Road in Demorest has died. According to the Georgia State Patrol, Corey Dearing, 40, of Maysville, passed away as a result of his injuries. Habersham County Coroner Kasey McEntire says Dearing died Wednesday.

 

Dearing was fatally injured when the construction tow truck he was driving ran down an embankment and overturned around 3:10 p.m. on June 20.

 

State troopers say Dearing was driving the Kenworth rollback south on Cannon Bridge Road when he traveled into the northbound lane. The preliminary accident report states the driver “overcorrected [and] traveled off the west shoulder of Cannon Bridge” before traveling down the embankment.

 

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