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One dead in major I-285 wreck at Camp Creek

Troopers said they were called to the scene around noon, Tuesday, after several semi-trucks were involved in a chain reaction crash.

EAST POINT, Ga. -- One person has died after an accident involving several semi-trucks and a car on I-285 south of Atlanta, the Georgia State Patrol confirmed.

Troopers said they were called to the scene around noon, Tuesday, after several semi-trucks were involved in a chain reaction crash. According to a preliminary investigation, one commercial truck was heading north on I-285 near Camp Creek Parkway when it struck three other tractor trailers and the rear of a passenger car for unknown reasons.

The crash also forced the car underneath another tractor-trailer, killing the driver, identified as 62-year-old Kimberly Diane Caldwell of Bowden, Georgia.

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