Creekside Elementary School music teacher Kathryn Poff dies in Ga. 49 accident

Mar 18, 2016 - 13:49
Mar 18, 2016 - 21:42
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Creekside Elementary School music teacher Kathryn Poff dies in Ga. 49 accident
Kathryn Poff

The Georgia State Patrol said a music teacher at Creekside Elementary School in Milledgeville was killed in a car collision Thursday afteoon.

Kathryn Poff who just celebrated her 27th birthday, died of blunt trauma injuries and was pronounced dead at the scene about 5:25 p.m., said Baldwin County Coroner John Gonzalez.

Poff was tuing left from Blandy Road, near Baldwin County High School, just a few blocks from her school, onto Ga. 49 as a tractor-trailer headed south was tuing right onto Blandy, according to an initial report from the Georgia State Patrol post in Milledgeville.

A GMC 3500, in the southbound lane behind the truck, hit the driver's side of Poff's Scion as she was tuing.

For more than an hour, northbound motorists detoured off Ga.49 at Allen Memorial Drive, and southbound traffic had to take the U.S. 441 bypass.

Kathryn Poff

 

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