LAGRANGE, Ga.,None — Authorities said a woman who came to Georgia to make a new life after Hurricane Katrina was killed when a rock shot from a Georgia DOT mower into the windshield of a car.
Troup County Sheriff Donny Turner said the vehicle was northbound on U.S. 27 south of Lagrange on Wednesday afternoon while a DOT Bush Hog mower ran along the side of the highway.
The sheriff's office said the rock was jettisoned from under the tractor, shot through the windshield, grazed a passenger in the front seat and struck the woman who was sitting in the back seat.
The Troup County Coroner Jeff Cook identified the victim as 58-year-old Annie Lee of LaGrange. Lee died instantly.
Cook told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution that Lee's family said she had moved to the area after the 2005 hurricane, but her family planned to return her body to Louisiana to be buried.
Four other people in the car had only minor injuries.