Watkinsville, GA : Oconee man dies in wreck Thursday morning on Thursday, March 28th 2017

A 34-year-old Oconee man died from injuries sustained in a car wreck Thursday morning on Hog Mountain Road near Clotfelter Road.
Christopher Hammond, of Moores Ford Road, has been identified as the victim.
A Nixle alert described an overturned vehicle with a possible fatality at 7:23 a.m. Shortly thereafter, law enforcement officials issued a another notice confirming that it was a single-vehicle, single-facility accident.
Hammond left the roadway and his car flipped, but there were no witnesses to the wreck, said Chief Deputy Lee Weems.
Several civilians stopped and reported the accident. Jim Wadley said he had just dropped off his granddaughter at school when he saw the overturned car and checked on the victim shortly after 7 a.m. There were two other people there, he said, and they checked vital signs before medical responders arrived.
Wadley said the victim was cold and his skin had turned blue. One of the civilians laid a towel over the victim’s face.
“That might have been a kid in there,” said Wadley. “You are supposed to stop and help folks. That’s just what human beings do.”
On Thursday morning, deputies were working four wrecks, including the fatality, which was the first vehicular death in Oconee in 2017. There were nine fatalities last year.
Last year’s alarming rise in both fatal and non-fatal wrecks prompted Sheriff Scott Berry and Cpt. James Hale to meet with the Governor’s Office of Highway Safety to curtail traffic accidents going forward.
The Oconee County Sheriff’s Office will be receiving a grant from the state to reduce traffic accidents, said Weems.
“We’ve been hitting speed enforcement really hard,” he said, noting that local law enforcement have to obtain permits from the state to operate speed detection on select roads. The permit is under the exclusive control of the Georgia Department of Public Safety.

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Oconee man dies in wreck Thursday morning