Police in the Atlanta area are blaming a motorist for causing 15 crashes that left one person dead and another critically injured

Police in the Atlanta area are blaming a motorist for causing 15 crashes that left one person dead and another critically injured. (CNN/WGCL)

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Police: Driver caused 15 crashes, damage, death

Charged with vehicular homicide, drunken driving

Updated: Thursday, 24 Jan 2013, 12:04 PM CST
Published : Thursday, 24 Jan 2013, 6:39 AM CST

SNELLVILLE, Ga. (AP) — Police in the Atlanta area say a 70-year-old driver caused 15 crashes that left one person dead and another critically injured.

Gwinnett County Police say in a news release that Michael O. Snider of Stone Mountain left a trail of wreckage Wednesday night on streets in two counties in northern Atlanta's suburbs.

Snider was apprehended after slamming into a restaurant in Snellville. Jail records do not show whether he has an attorney. He has been charged with vehicular homicide and drunken driving.

Police say Snider is suspected of causing five wrecks in DeKalb County and 10 more in Gwinnett County. The fatal crash, which happened just before the restaurant was rammed, involved a chain-reaction collision that killed 69-year-old Mintiwab Woldeyhans of Loganville.


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