Crime & Safety
GA 400 Motorcycle Wreck Kills Woman, Brother Charged
The female passenger was thrown from her brother's bike in one of many accidents near Cumming overnight Friday.
A female motorcycle passenger was killed in an early Saturday morning crash on GA 400 near Holcomb Bridge Road.
Roswell Police identified the victim as Sarah Howell, 28, of nearby Alpharetta. Howell fell off the motorcycle when it swiped a wall, and was hit by a car.
The driver of the motorcycle, David Neil Howell, the victim's brother, was arrested and charged by Roswell Police with first degree vehicular homicide, DUI, reckless driving, failure to maintain a lane and violating his motorcycle instructional permit.
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Anyone with information is asked to call Roswell Police at 770-640-4100.
Roswell Police discovered the wreck after responding to a call of a reckless driver on GA 400, according to an Atlanta Journal-Constitution story.
AJC reported that during the night five people were killed in four separate accidents, around metro Atlanta, including another motorcycle crash on Cobb Parkway.
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Patch Editor Wendy Parker contributed to this story.
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