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Driver, company indicted in crash that killed 5 GSU nursing students
6th student who sustained spinal injuries also named as victim
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Clockwise, from top left: Morgan Bass, Caitlyn Nicole Baggett, Catherine "McKay" Pittman, Abbie Lorene DeLoach and Emily Elizabeth Clark
A Bryan County grand jury returned indictments Wednesday against truck driver John Wayne Johnson, who was involved in the April 2015 crash on Interstate 16 that killed five Georgia Southern University nursing students, said Tom Durden, district attorney for the Atlantic Judicial Circuit. Indictments also were returned against Total Transportation of Mississippi LLC, the company that employed Johnson. On April 22, 2015, Johnson, of Shreveport, Louisiana, was driving a 2012 Peterbilt Model 587 tractor-trailer when it plowed into stalled traffic on Interstate 16 in Bryan County, where cars were at a standstill due to a previous wreck.
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