A 9-year-old girl died after being struck by a car while crossing Log Cabin Drive near Gadson Drive in Macon just before 8 p.m. on Saturday. Ta'Neyah Andrews was taken by ambulance to a local hospital, where she later died from her injuries. The driver, a 31-year-old woman behind the wheel of a white Toyota Highlander, remained at the scene when deputies arrived.
According to The Georgia Sun, Andrews's family has since been notified of her death, and the Bibb County Sheriff's Office is investigating exactly what happened in the moments before the collision. No further details about the circumstances of the crash, including what the girl was doing before she stepped into the roadway, have been released.
A Corridor With a Deadly History
Log Cabin Drive is not new to tragedy. In May 2026, 32-year-old Isaiah Scott was fatally struck by a pickup truck near Chamber Road on the same corridor, dying at a local hospital after the driver stayed at the scene, according to prior reporting from The Telegraph. Traffic safety analyses have also flagged the road's intersections with Mercer University Drive and Eisenhower Parkway as hazardous, per data cited by Enjuris.
The stretch has seen other kinds of violence too — the 4376 block of Log Cabin Drive was the site of a separate deadly emergency incident during a weekend of gun violence in Macon last year, underscoring how frequently first responders have been called to this same section of road.
Macon-Bibb's Growing Pedestrian Crisis
Andrews's death adds to an already grim tally for Macon-Bibb County, which as of Aug. 19 had recorded 13 pedestrian deaths and one cyclist death in 2026, according to The Macon Newsroom. Macon-Bibb had the second-highest per-capita pedestrian fatality rate in Georgia. The county logged 17 pedestrian deaths in both 2021 and 2022, and 12 in 2025.
A Complete Streets compliance report released by Macon-Bibb County last month found that pedestrian injury crashes jumped 40%, from 53 in 2023 to 74 in 2025, even as overall vehicle collisions countywide declined from 10,506 in 2019 to 7,957 in 2025, per The Macon Newsroom. The county has allocated $500,000 annually for pedestrian safety initiatives and established a Pedestrian Safety Review Board to advance a Vision Zero Action Plan aimed at eliminating traffic deaths, and it hired its first dedicated Traffic Safety Manager in 2024, according to Macon-Bibb County Government. Despite those efforts, pedestrian deaths have continued to climb through 2026.
What Georgia Law Says About Crashes Like This
Under O.C.G.A. § 40-6-92, pedestrians crossing a roadway outside a marked crosswalk or unmarked intersection crosswalk are required to yield the right-of-way to oncoming vehicles unless they have already entered the street under safe conditions, according to the Official Code of Georgia Annotated. At the same time, O.C.G.A. § 40-6-93 requires drivers to exercise due care to avoid colliding with any pedestrian on any roadway, sounding a horn when necessary, regardless of whether a crosswalk is present.
Saturday's crash on Log Cabin Drive happened just before 8 p.m. Nationally, pedestrian fatalities actually fell 7% in 2025 to a projected 6,732 deaths — the third straight annual decline — though the Governors Highway Safety Association notes totals remain 12.5% above the 2017 level, a trend that stands in contrast to Macon-Bibb's local surge.
The Bibb County Sheriff's Office investigation into what led to Andrews's death remains ongoing, and no further updates on potential charges have been released.
