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UPDATE: Truck Debris on I-20 Kills 8 year-old and injures others

I-20 Traffic came to a stop near M.L. King Drive when truck debris turned fatal.

Update: This story becomes more and more tragic as the details come in.Β  Unfortunately the life lost is that of an 8 year-old boy, Cameron Mcilwain from Decatur.Β  He was a passenger along with a 19 month-old girl in a car traveling I-20W when a peice of debris slammed into their car.Β  The driver of their car, Jameka French, "wasΒ transportedΒ to Grady Memorial Hospital, and her arm was amputated from the elbow down," according to 11Alive reports.
Truck debris came off of David Washington's Freightliner and jumped the highway as he was traveling I-20E.
No charges have been filed as yet.

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