A 29-year-old Marietta man lost his life in an early morning single-vehicle crash on Blackwell Road in Cobb County, while his passenger escaped with minor injuries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\ud83d\udd0d What Happened:<\/strong> According to the Cobb County Police Department, Cody Chitwood was driving a 2023 Subaru WRX eastbound on Blackwell Road west of Autumn Ridge Parkway around 2:47 a.m. Saturday when the vehicle veered off the roadway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The car traveled down a vegetated embankment, crashed through a wooden fence, and came to rest between two trees. Chitwood was pronounced dead at the scene by the Cobb County Medical Examiner’s Office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n His passenger, also 29, sustained only minor injuries in the crash.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \ud83d\ude94 The Investigation:<\/strong> The Cobb County Police Department’s Special Operations S.T.E.P. Unit is investigating the collision. Police have not determined why the vehicle initially left the roadway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Authorities are asking anyone with information about the crash to contact the S.T.E.P. Unit at 770-499-3987. The case has been assigned number 25-050156.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \ud83d\udd0e Between the Lines:<\/strong> This marks another serious crash on Cobb County roads in 2025. The police report indicates the crash occurred during overnight hours when visibility is reduced and driver fatigue can be a factor, though investigators have not specified any potential causes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Sources:<\/strong> Cobb County Police Department, Cobb County Medical Examiner’s Office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n[mailerlite_form form_id=45]\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A 29-year-old Marietta man lost his life in an early morning single-vehicle crash on Blackwell Road in Cobb County, while his passenger escaped with minor injuries. \ud83d\udd0d What Happened: According to the Cobb County Police Department, Cody Chitwood was driving a 2023 Subaru WRX eastbound on Blackwell Road west of Autumn Ridge Parkway around 2:47 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":948,"featured_media":10327,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_featured_image_position":"behind","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":[18702,18703,13026],"class_list":["post-228125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-traffic","tag-blackwell-road","tag-cody-chitwood","tag-crash","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228125","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=228125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228125\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=228125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=228125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=228125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}