Wrong way: UGA student Bridget Thompson hit, killed on GA-10

A University of Georgia student died early Friday morning as she walked on the road trying to get help following a wrong-way crash.

According to the Georgia State Patrol, Bridget Ariel Thompson, 19, of Grayson got out of her car and walked along the highway, possibly looking for assistance after crashing her car. she was hit and killed by a pickup truck.

The patrol said prior to the accident, Oconee County dispatchers received a 911 call around 3:50 a.m. about a wrong-way driver on the GA 10 Loop near Georgia Highway 316. While the trooper was en route, dispatchers notified him there was a single-vehicle crash in that area and a report about a pedestrian walking away from the crashed vehicle and towards GA-15, east of the intersection on the GA-10 Inner Loop, yelling for help.

The trooper arrived on the scene minutes later to find Thompson in the roadway, lying across both lanes of the GA-10.

She was dead.

The driver of the Ford F-250 pickup truck, Timothy Rogers, 51, of Lexington, told officers the highway was dim and that he did not see her until it was too late to stop, according to the report.

Rogers stopped immediately at the accident scene, officials said.