BALDWIN COUNTY, Ga. — Two men are dead after a car accident in Milledgeville late Saturday night.
It happened around 10 p.m. on Gumm Cemetery Road NE. According to a Georgia State Patrol report, 54-year-old Christopher Sheffield was driving at the time of the accident.
The report says Sheffield lost control of his 2008 Ford pickup truck when he overcorrected and the truck flipped. The top of the truck hit a tree and landed in a ditch.
Baldwin County deputy coroner Ken Garland pronounced Sheffield and his passenger, 53-year-old James Bailey, dead at the scene.
No other cars were involved in the crash and no one else was injured. The cause of the crash is still under investigation.
