EASTMAN, Ga. — A pregnant woman and her unborn child were killed Monday morning in a car accident in Dodge County.
According to Coroner Joe Smith, it happened just before 8 a.m. on Abbeville Highway (Hwy 87 South) and Edna Moore Road.
He says 31-year-old Kenisha Northcut-Jones drove off the road and her vehicle flipped several times. She was 34 weeks pregnant, and both her and her unborn child suffered fatal injuries.
Her 7-year-old daughter was also in the car and was hospitalized with injuries, though she is expected to be okay.
Dodge Sheriff Brian Robinson says it’s the third fatality accident in a week and their 6th overall in 2022. There was a total of two fatal accidents in Dodge County in all of 2021.
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