Atlanta Police Officer, Killed in Suspected DUI Head-On Collision

A south Fulton County crash Friday morning, October 24, turned deadly when an Atlanta police officer, eighteen-year veteran of the Atlanta Police Department, was struck in his vehicle head-on by twenty-one-year-old resident of Douglasville. According to My Fox Atlanta website, the 21 year-old's vehicle crossed the center line of Campbellton Road in Fulton County, resulting in the head-on collision. Authorities reported that someone called 911 saying that the driver's car was weaving. Officers responded by following him and finally attempting to pull him over, but Jacobs did not stop in the "high speeds" chase. When the twenty-one-year-old’s vehicle crossed the double yellow line on Campbellton Road near the Douglas County-Fulton County line, both drivers, Both men were killed were killed. The sergeant was off-duty and on his way home at the time of the crash. He is survived by his wife and children.
Since alcohol is suspected to have been a factor in the accident, director of the Governer’s Office of Highway Safety Bob Dallas announced Friday that the office’s DUI mobilization effort for metro Atlanta will be dedicated to sergeant’s memory. 
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