Marietta Teen Jacob Blackmore Killed In Crash With Margarine Truck

DEKALB COUNTY, Ga. - After nearly 12 hours of work, all lanes of Interstate 285 eastbound have re-opened after a wrong-way driver slammed into a tractor-trailer truck, killing the wrong-way driver. It happened around midnight on Interstate 285 eastbound at Ashford Dunwoody Road in DeKalb County.

Dunwoody Police say 19-year-old Jacob Blackmore of Marietta was traveling westbound in the eastbound lanes of the interstate when he hit a tractor-trailer truck.  Blackmore was pronounced dead at the scene.

The driver of the truck, who has been identified as 57-year-old Rory Stewart of Dalton, was not injured.

One witness says he heard the impact of the accident first, then looked in his rear view mirror where he "could see the actual car sideways getting hit by the truck and dragged down the road. Then he hit the wall. Sparks were going everywhere. The car blew up. The truck went a good bit down the road before he could stop. He was on fire."

Mark McKinnon of the Georgia Department of Transportation says the tractor trailer truck was carrying margarine. Margarine is hard to put out when it is on fire. Crews fought the truck fire all night. It was consumed by the flames. Hazmat crews were called in to clean up the runoff from the truck and water on the road.

All eastbound lanes were closed for nearly six hours. While lanes were opened to traffic as work progressed, all lanes on Interstate 285 eastbound did not open to traffic until 11 a.m., nearly 12 hours after the accident happened.

The accident is under investigation.