LAURENS COUNTY, Ga. — UPDATE, 6:30 p.m.:
Investigators are trying to get to the bottom of a deadly ATV accident in Laurens County over the weekend.
It happened on Robert Plummer Road in east Dublin.
Laurens County Deputy Coroner Nathan Stanley says it happened around 4 p.m. Saturday.
Stanley says witnesses reported people racing bikes and four-wheelers on the country backroad.
He says investigators believe 37-year-old Martes Robinson of Lumber City was a spectator and 24-year-old Michael Plummer was driving a four-wheeler.
The road is named for the victim's father who owns property there and built the road.
Stanley says he found Robinson on the side of the road, but somebody else took Plummer to a hospital. He later died in a Macon hospital.
The Georgia State Patrol says they're still investigating how the accident happened. Robert Plummer Jr. says he has concerns about the safety of the road.
"If they are going to do it, go where it is safe at and do it, and know all the safety rules when you are racing," Plummer Jr. said.
Last year, Laurens Sheriff Larry Dean posted that he gets frequent complaints about ATV riders racing, trespassing, and tearing up property.
He said those complaints often involve kids and they've had several injuries and deaths.
Dean wrote that they usually let the racers off with a warning the first time and tow the ATV the second time.
In 2018, the Consumer Product Safety Commission reported almost 1,6000 ATV-related deaths.
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Two people are dead following a 4-wheeler accident in Laurens County on Saturday.
According to Georgia State Patrol, it happened around 4 p.m.
GSP says that an ATV went off the road and hit three people and several small trees.
Deputy Coroner Nathan Stanley says when he arrived at Robert Plummer Road in East Dublin, he found 37-year-old Martes Robinson, from Lumber City, dead.
Stanley says someone took the driver 24-year-old Michael Plummer to a hospital in a car. Plummer later died after getting transferred to a Macon hospital, according to Stanley.
Stanley says witnesses reported people racing. It's unknown at this time how the accident occurred, according to GSP.
The accident is under investigation.
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