Driver Charged In 4-Vehicle Crash

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A driver involved in a four-vehicle accident late last month in Sandy Springs has been charged in connection to the incident.

Sandy Springs police arrested and charged Christopher Lee Massie, 29, in the June 26 accident in the 6800 block of Roswell Road. Massie is charged with reckless driving, driving under the influence and serious injury by vehicle, said spokesperson Sgt. Forrest Bohannon.

Police received a call around 5:18 p.m. of a four-vehicle accident on Roswell Road just north of Abernathy Road. Sgt. Bohannon stated the wreck left one driver in critical condition and shut down Roswell Road for several hours during the Friday evening rush hour.

According to an accident investigation report released by the agency, Massie, a Marietta resident who was driving a 1995 Dodge Dakota, said he ”had just left the Goodwill on Roswell Road” and was traveling northbound when the accident occurred.

Massie allegedly told officers he did not remember anything else, according to the report.

The driver of the second vehicle, James Michael Wazlavek, was traveling northbound on Roswell Road in a 1998 Acura SLX and was getting into the center lane to make a left turn into 6800 Roswell Road when the Dodge “slid past his vehicle,” hit his driver side mirror and collided head-on with the third vehicle, a 2011 Nissan Sentra.

The driver of the Sentra, Sandy Springs resident Chantique D. Randolph, was unable to make a statement due to the patient’s medical condition at the time of the crash, the report states.

Anthony Eugene Fisher, who was behind the wheel of a 2009 Chevy Malibu, told officers he was traveling southbound on Roswell Road when he saw the Dodge and Sentra collide. He noted he tried to go around the crash, but the Sentra was pushed into his car, an action that caused him to hit a power pole.

A witness on the scene, who was at a nearby barber shop south of the crash site, “had a good view of the roadway” during the moment of impact. The witness said the Dodge Dakota was “traveling at a high rate of speed in the center turn lane” when it swerved and slammed on its breaks while sliding head-on into the Sentra, according to the report.

Another witness who heard the crash went to check on the occupants of the vehicles, and overheard a passenger inside the vehicle allegedly say to Massie, “You were on the phone with your dad and I was saying, ‘slow down, slow down’,” the report said.

Massie was booked into the Fulton County Jail on Wednesday, July 8 and where he remains with $13,000 bond.

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