{"id":31447,"date":"2021-12-27T11:03:15","date_gmt":"2021-12-27T16:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/?p=31447"},"modified":"2023-09-24T15:01:19","modified_gmt":"2023-09-24T19:01:19","slug":"dui-arrest-made-in-serious-injury-motorcycle-crash-in-acworth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/?p=31447","title":{"rendered":"DUI arrest made in serious injury motorcycle crash in Acworth"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"\/tag\/Acworth\">ACWORTH<\/a> &#8212; A 47-year-old motorcycle driver has been seriously injured after a crash Sunday involving a pickup truck in Acworth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Cobb County Police Department is assisting the City of Acworth Police Department with the investigation of the crash that occurred just after 6:15 p.m. on Cherokee Street north of Lake Acworth Drive in the city of Acworth. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to investigators, a black 2001 Harley-Davidson XL1200C was heading southbound on Cherokee Street in the right turn lane to westbound Lake <a class=\"wpil_keyword_link\" href=\"\/city\/Acworth\"   title=\"Acworth\" data-wpil-keyword-link=\"linked\">Acworth<\/a> Drive. A brown 2017 GMC Sierra was\u00a0exiting the Racetrac gas station and entered the path of the Harley-Davidson.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Police say the operator of the motorcycle applied the brakes to avoid striking the GMC but the motorcycle overturned and the operator was ejected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The driver of the motorcycle<strong> <\/strong>was transported to Kennestone Hospital with serious injuries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The driver of the GMC, a 56-year-old Roswell man was taken into custody at the scene and has been charged with DUI, Failure to Yield, and Serious Injury by Vehicle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This investigation remains active and anyone with information can call 770-499-3987.<\/p>\n\n\n\n[mailerlite_form form_id=7]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ACWORTH &#8212; A 47-year-old motorcycle driver has been seriously injured after a crash Sunday involving a pickup truck in Acworth. The Cobb County Police Department is assisting the City of Acworth Police Department with the investigation of the crash that occurred just after 6:15 p.m. on Cherokee Street north of Lake Acworth Drive in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":23978,"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":[9621,8486,8933],"class_list":["post-31447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-traffic","tag-acworth","tag-cobb-county","tag-dui","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31447","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31447\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}