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DA drops indictments against trucking company
Scholarship founded for nursing students killed in crash
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Atlantic Judicial Circuit District Attorney Tom Durden will not prosecute a transportation company indicted earlier this year in the deaths of five Georgia Southern University students, in light of the company’s establishment of a memorial scholarship for students enrolling in nursing programs in Georgia universities and colleges. Total Transportation of Mississippi LLC, along with truck driver John Wayne Johnson of Shreveport, Louisiana, were indicted in June regarding the April 22, 2015, deaths of Caitlyn Nicole Baggett of Millen, Emily Elizabeth Clark of Powder Springs, Abbie Lorene DeLoach of Savannah, Morgan Bass of Leesburg and Catherine "McKay" Pittman of Alpharetta. On that day, Johnson was driving a 2012 Peterbilt Model 587 tractor-trailer when it plowed into stalled traffic on I-16 in Bryan County, where cars were at a standstill due to a previous wreck.
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