A woman died early Friday morning after her car left the road and struck a tree in unincorporated Lithonia, according to DeKalb County police. Officers were called to the intersection of S Deshon Road and Alford Road at around 1:11 a.m., and the driver died at the scene from her injuries. She has not yet been publicly identified, and investigators are still working to determine what led to the crash.
According to Atlanta News First, officers believe the vehicle veered off the roadway before colliding with the tree, with the force of the impact proving fatal. The outlet reports that the woman had not been identified and that police were investigating what led to the crash. For now, the case remains a developing story as detectives piece together the sequence of events that unfolded in the overnight hours.
Investigation Into Cause Still Open
Police are still working to determine what led to the crash.
A Second DeKalb Crash Near the Same Roads
The fatal wreck adds to a string of serious crashes reported along that stretch of DeKalb County in recent memory. In a separate incident, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported that a woman survived being trapped underneath a dump truck after a rollover crash around 1 p.m. at Rogers Lake Road and South Deshon Road in Lithonia. Crews arriving at that scene found a four-door sedan flipped upside down in a ditch with the dump truck resting directly on top of it, the AJC reported.
In that earlier case, the newspaper reported the woman was freed from the car, flown to a hospital, and appeared stable while speaking with rescue crews at the scene. The two crashes occurred at different times along the South Deshon Road corridor in DeKalb County. The earlier crash happened at Rogers Lake Road and South Deshon Road, while the fatal crash happened at S Deshon Road and Alford Road.
DeKalb County police have not released the identity of the woman who died Friday morning, and the investigation into the cause of the crash remains ongoing.
