Teen sisters die in crash with tractor-trailer, Georgia officials say. ‘Sweetest girls’
Two sisters, ages 16 and 15, died after a crash with a tractor-trailer on a Georgia highway, officials said.
Alana and Lauren McClain, from Sparta, were passengers in a black Lexus when the driver ran through a stop sign and “entered the path of the tractor-trailer” on Sunday, April 3, the Georgia State Patrol said in a news release.
The front of the tractor-trailer hit the passenger side of the Lexus, officials said.
The driver of the Lexus, whom authorities did not identify, was airlifted to a hospital with serious injuries.
“It will never feel right putting R.I.P by my little cousins names so I’m not … I remember them girls as babies and today will never sit right in my spirit,” Mallory Brown, a family member, wrote on Facebook. “They were beautiful, smart, the sweetest girls a person could ever meet.”
Kyah Shenee, who managed the Sparta-Hancock County Library, said the girls helped with summer reading and other events at the library.
“They were the most humble and respectful children I ever encountered,” Shenee wrote on Facebook. “Young queens who were going to do great things.”
Georgia State Patrol reported responding to the crash at about 8:26 p.m. The scene was on the intersection of GA-15 and Fairmont Road in Hancock County, which is about 100 miles southeast of Atlanta.
State troopers in their release didn’t share the condition of the tractor-trailer driver. As of April 4, the crash remained under investigation.
This story was originally published April 4, 2022 at 12:39 PM with the headline "Teen sisters die in crash with tractor-trailer, Georgia officials say. ‘Sweetest girls’."
