{"id":219182,"date":"2025-03-20T11:45:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-20T15:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/?p=219182"},"modified":"2025-03-20T11:45:00","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T15:45:00","slug":"head-on-crash-claims-life-of-macon-man-and-leaves-9-year-old-among-critically-injured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/?p=219182","title":{"rendered":"Head-On Crash Claims Life of Macon Man and Leaves 9-Year-Old Among Critically Injured"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A predawn collision on Mercer University Drive Thursday morning left one man dead and three others fighting for their lives after two vehicles slammed into each other near a busy Macon intersection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What We Know:<\/strong> The violent crash killed 37-year-old Javaughn Raheen Hackney when his Hyundai Elantra collided head-on with a Dodge Durango at 5:09 a.m. on March 20, 2025, near Grosso Avenue in Bibb County. Hackney died from his injuries after being rushed to Atrium Navicent Health. Two passengers in Hackney&#8217;s car \u2013 a 29-year-old woman and a 9-year-old boy \u2013 suffered critical injuries but remain in stable condition. The 51-year-old man driving the Durango also sustained critical injuries. Chief Deputy Coroner Lonnie Miley confirmed that Hackney&#8217;s family has been notified of his death.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What We Don&#8217;t Know:<\/strong> Investigators haven&#8217;t revealed what caused the vehicles to collide head-on. It remains unclear if speed, distracted driving, road conditions, or visibility issues in the early morning hours contributed to the crash. The <a class=\"wpil_keyword_link\" href=\"\/county\/Bibb\"   title=\"Bibb\" data-wpil-keyword-link=\"linked\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"1355\">Bibb<\/a> County Sheriff&#8217;s Office hasn&#8217;t released the names of the other people involved or specified the relationship between Hackney and his passengers. Details about where the vehicles were traveling to or from also remain unknown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Take Action:<\/strong> Witnesses to the crash or anyone with information about the events leading up to it should contact the Bibb County Sheriff&#8217;s Office at 478-751-7500 and ask to speak with a Fatality Investigator. Drivers should use extra caution during early morning hours when visibility is often reduced, especially on busy thoroughfares like Mercer University Drive. The sheriff&#8217;s office continues to investigate the circumstances surrounding this deadly collision.<\/p>\n\n\n\n[mailerlite_form form_id=32]\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A predawn collision on Mercer University Drive Thursday morning left one man dead and three others fighting for their lives after two vehicles slammed into each other near a busy Macon intersection. What We Know: The violent crash killed 37-year-old Javaughn Raheen Hackney when his Hyundai Elantra collided head-on with a Dodge Durango at 5:09 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":948,"featured_media":165671,"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":[13026,17493],"class_list":["post-219182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-traffic","tag-crash","tag-javaughn-raheen-hackney","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219182","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\/948"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=219182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219182\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=219182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=219182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=219182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}