Two Injured in Early Morning Crash in Helen

HELEN, Ga. – Two people suffered what are believed to be non-life threatening injuries in the pre-dawn hours Sunday morning.

According to a report from Georgia State Patrol Post 6 in Gainesville, David Dority, 34, of Peachtree Corners was traveling southbound in a 2007 Chevy Cobalt when he failed to negotiate a curve. The car traveled off the west shoulder of the road, began to rotate counter clockwise and reentered the roadway. It then crossed the center line into the northbound lane of Ga. 75.

In an effort to avoid a collision, Sadie Johnson, 38, of Helen, who was driving northbound in a 1996 Chevy Lumina, traveled off the east shoulder of the roadway. The front driver’s side of her vehicle struck the front passenger’s side of Dority’s vehicle.  The force generated by the collision caused the rear passenger’s side of Dority’s vehicle to strike the driver’s side of the Johnson vehicle.

Dority has been charged with DUI, failure to use a seat belt, failure to maintain lane and driving on the wrong side of a roadway. He was injured and transported to Northeast Georgia Medical Center in Gainesville. Johnson, 38 also was injured and transported to NEGMC.