CLAYTON COUNTY, Ga. — Part of a busy road is shut down for hours because of a truck crash where a driver died.
The truck flipped onto its side on Jonesboro Road in Clayton County around 12:30 p.m. Sunday.
Police are trying to figure out how the driver lost control.
Latwanda Langdon said her brother, Antonio Smith, was driving the semi when something caused him to lose control and veer off the road. He landed beside the car wash inside Jonesboro Plaza in Forest Park.
Vielka Chavarria gave us a photo that shows the scene minutes after the crash. She said she saw a car appear to cut off the 18-wheeler. She said that car pulled into a shopping center but then quickly sped away.
"I think he tried to avoid the other car, and that’s when he lost control and rolled down," Chavarria said.
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"It shows the lack of humanity we have in the world today that you can cause an accident and don’t know if you killed someone and you keep going," Chavarria said.
But Forest Park police said witnesses gave them three different versions of what may have happened before the crash.
Investigators also said they aren't ruling out foul play because Smith had head trauma. They aren't able to say yet whether he died from the crash or whether something happened before impact.
For his family, not having definitive answers makes the situation worse.
Langdon is left clinging to memories of her brother, whom she said was a loving father of 3.
"He would give the shirt off his back his last dime to anybody. He'd do anything to help anybody. He was just with us last nigh. We had a family BBQ," Langdon said. "I didn’t know that would be the last time I saw him."
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