Crime & Safety
Police Identify Teen Killed In Cherokee County Crash
A Jeep Cherokee left the roadway and collided with a tree early Saturday morning north of Canton.
CANTON, GA -- The Cherokee Sheriff's Office has confirmed the identity of the 17-year-old male who died early Saturday morning in a single-vehicle crash.
Tyler Land, 17, was the passenger in a vehicle that left the roadway and crashed head-on into a tree, Sgt. Marianne Kelley told Patch.
Deputies were dispatched during the early morning hours of Saturday, April 1 to Ball Ground Highway near Evergreen Road, which is north of Fate Conn Road near Canton.
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The vehicle, a Jeep Cherokee driven by 20-year-old Tyler Callahan of Jasper, veered off the two-lane highway and collided with a tree, the agency previously reported.
Land was pronounced dead at the scene.
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The accident remains under investigation. Return to Patch for updates.
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