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Woman dies after car leaves roadway, crashes in DeKalb County

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DEKALB COUNTY, Ga. — A woman is dead after a crash Thursday evening.

Officers responded to a vehicle accident at Mountain Industrial Boulevard and Tuckerstone Parkway around 6 p.m.

When they arrived, they found a car that had left the roadway.

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In a release, police said the car left the road “for unknown reasons” and crashed down an embankment.

The 48-year-old female driver was dead at the scene.

Police said there was a child safety seat in the back of the vehicle, so police, along with fire and rescue, searched the surrounding area but did not locate any child.

The cause of the accident is unknown at this time.

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