Driver Charged In Crash That Killed Motorcyclist

WOODSTOCK, GA — The Cherokee Sheriff's Office has charged the driver of a vehicle involved in a collision that killed a motorcycle operator last month in Woodstock.

Joann Katherine Wagner of Acworth was booked into the Cherokee County Adult Detention Center Tuesday on one count each of vehicular homicide in the second degree and failure to yield left turn, which are both misdemeanors.

Deputies with the Cherokee Sheriff's Office were dispatched to the collision around 10:58 a.m. May 27 on Bells Ferry Road at Eagle Drive. A Honda Civic driven by Wagner, who was 19 at the time of the crash, was trying to make left turn onto Eagle Drive from the southbound side of Bells Ferry Road while a Harley Davidson motorcycle was traveling northbound on Bells Ferry Road.

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Preliminary information gathered at the scene indicates the Honda "turned left into the path of the motorcycle" operated by 55-year-old Daniel Zimmerman of Cartersville, sheriff's office spokesperson Sgt. Marianne Kelley said. Zimmerman was transported to an area hospital where he was pronounced dead.

Photo: Joann Katherine Wagner. Credit: Cherokee Sheriff's Office