Four-Car Accident Closed Section of Experiment Station Road Friday

In his weekly news release, Chief Lee O'Dillon recapped some of the incidents that police responded to during the week ending May 22.

• A traffic accident closed a section of Experiment Station Road on Friday, May 20 around noon, O'Dillon said. The driver of a Chevrolet Silverado had stopped while attempting to make a left turn onto VFW Drive when a 98 Toyota 4-Runner and a 97 Toyota Corolla stopped behind it. A
  1999 Ford F-150 traveling westbound slammed into the line of traffic forcing the vehicles together, he reported. The vehicles suffered extensive damage and National EMS transported two people to St.Mary’s Hospital, O'Dillon said. A 68-year-old resident of Simonton Bridge Road was charged
  with following too closely.
• On May 19 about 10:30 a.m., officers responded to reports of a reckless driver on Highway 15 in Watkinsville. Dana G. Mallory, 44, of Athens, was charged with DUI, open container of alcohol, and failure to maintain lane, O'Dillon reported.
• A 26-year-old resident of Elder Mill Road was charged with driving on a suspended license following a traffic stop on May 17, O'Dillon said.
• Police were called to New High Shoals Road on May 16 about 1 p.m. after a Dodge Stratus went across the roadway striking a mailbox and a tree, O'Dillon said. The driver fled but was caught behind a house off Harden Hill Road, he said. Ronson Tradd Westmoreland, 24, of Hardigree Bell Road, was arrested and charged with driving under the influence of drugs, leaving the scene of an accident, driving on a suspended driver's license, and driving on the wrong side of the road, O'Dillon said.

Watkinsville police responded to a total of 33 calls within city limits between Monday, May 16 and Sunday, May 22, O'Dillon said.