Driver Charged In Fatal Ga. 400 Crash

SANDY SPRINGS, GA — A Cobb County man has been charged in connection to a fatal, single-vehicle crash reported Friday evening on Ga. 400 in Sandy Springs.

Seth Wheeler, 19, of Marietta has been charged by Sandy Springs police with vehicular homicide in the second degree, failure to maintain lane and driving too fast for conditions, Capt. Forrest Bohannon said Monday afternoon. Vehicular homicide in the second degree is a misdemeanor charge in Georgia.

Wheeler was driving a 1998 Ford Explorer just after 11 p.m. July 20 on Ga. 400 southbound near the exit to I-285 westbound when he lost control of the SUV.

Wheeler's passenger, identified as 19-year-old John Carpenter, also of Marietta, died in the collision. The driver was transported to an area hospital for treatment.

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Friday's fatal accident is the latest in several deadly crashes that's been reported in Sandy Springs for 2018. In June, two people died when a vehicle collided with the back of a tractor trailer on Interstate 285. Earlier in that month, another motorist died when a Jeep Wrangler exiting the shopping center on Roswell Road at Dunwoody Place turned into the path of an approaching motorcycle. The operator of the motorcycle was pronounced dead at the scene.

In April, another motorcyclist was killed in two-vehicle crash on Roswell Road near Abernathy Road. A husband was charged by Sandy Springs police in March when his wife died in a crash that occurred after he swerved to miss another accident, crashed into a guardrail and overturned. The driver of a Porsche 911 died in January after the vehicle, which was traveling on Roswell Road near Glenridge Drive, failed to properly negotiate a curve and overturned off to the side of the road.

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