{"id":158045,"date":"2023-11-27T16:56:43","date_gmt":"2023-11-27T21:56:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/?p=158045"},"modified":"2023-11-27T16:56:49","modified_gmt":"2023-11-27T21:56:49","slug":"man-dead-after-five-car-pileup-on-i-75-in-macon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/?p=158045","title":{"rendered":"Man Dead After Five Car Pileup on I-75 in Macon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>The Gist:<\/strong> A fatal traffic collision involving five vehicles occurred on I-75 South near the Pierce Avenue On-Ramp in Bibb County Monday afternoon. The crash, reported in the afternoon, resulted in one fatality and several injuries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The Details:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Location and Time:<\/strong> The incident took place on I-75 South near the Pierce Avenue On-Ramp. It was reported to the Macon-Bibb E-911 Center at 1:43 p.m.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Vehicles Involved:<\/strong> The collision involved a box truck, three pickup trucks, and a sports utility vehicle.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Casualties:<\/strong>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>One male motorist was found deceased at the scene.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Three other individuals sustained injuries and received medical treatment, with transportation to a medical facility.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Two motorists suffered minor injuries.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Investigation:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The Bibb County Sheriff\u2019s Office is actively investigating to ascertain the cause of the collision.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Coroner Leon Jones confirmed the fatality, noting that the next of kin had not yet been notified.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Additional information will be released as the investigation progresses.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Public Appeal:<\/strong> The Bibb County Sheriff\u2019s Office is requesting anyone with information about the collision to contact them at 478-751-7500 to assist with the ongoing investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Gist: A fatal traffic collision involving five vehicles occurred on I-75 South near the Pierce Avenue On-Ramp in Bibb County Monday afternoon. The crash, reported in the afternoon, resulted in one fatality and several injuries. The Details: Investigation: Public Appeal: The Bibb County Sheriff\u2019s Office is requesting anyone with information about the collision to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45487,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[8592],"class_list":["post-158045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-traffic","tag-i-75","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=158045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158045\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=158045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=158045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=158045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}