GRIFFIN, Ga., Dec. 30, 2007
4 Die In Fiery "Mud-Bogging" Accident
2 Small Children Among Dead As SUV Slams Into Trees, Explodes
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Investigators believe alcohol, recent rain and reckless driving may have been factors in Friday night's crash of the Ford Bronco, which burned completely, state Trooper J.T. McMillan said.
"They were out there, playing around, mud-bogging on the dirt road," McMillan said. "They got stuck in the dirt and were pulled out by a dump truck. They sped off down the road and the driver struck two trees."
Mud bogging is an off-road motor sport in which drivers try to go as far as possible through a mud hole without bogging down.
The SUV was traveling around 70 mph at impact, and the occupants weren't wearing seat belts, he said.
Authorities say the deceased victims are Susanna Guffey, 24, who was driving the Ford Bronco; Christina Caldwell, 36; Guffey's 2-year-old son, Lucas Ross; and Zoe Jayde Flick, 4.
Guffey's four-year-old son, Brody, sustained minor injuries in the Friday night accident and was later released from Sylvan Grove Hospital in nearby Jackson.
Another passenger, Tammy Flick - the mother of Zoe - remains in stable condition at Atlanta Medical Center with a broken leg.
Neither is believed to have life-threatening injuries.
Griffin is about 37 miles south of Atlanta.
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- We need a widespread disease that sterilizes women.
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- RETARDS nothing but retards any mam knows you go the road alone for safty...
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- I tell ya their smokeum all up.....
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- I tell ya their smokeum all up.....
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- leafsntrees...you must be smokem...poor tree no more leaves....where in the heck are you from?
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- leafsntrees~What??
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- Alcohol.Speeding 70 mph off-road. No seat belts. With little kids. This is stupidity times 4.
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- One of these days, someone''''s gonna find out who you are and smack the ******* out of you.
Posted by deemsnyd at 06:58 PM : Dec 31, 2007
Why? He ain''t bothering you or anybody else! - Reply to this comment
- leafsntrees,
One of these days, someone''s gonna find out who you are and smack the ******* out of you. - Reply to this comment
- Too bad the idiots did not leave the kids at home with a sitter. I have stated before I don''t give a rats aiss what sport you play as long as it don''t wind up costing me any public tax money to support it.
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- '''' .. i can walk 3 mph, or flap wings at 30 mph, or, to spare my knees i can put on a spongey shuttlecock exoskeleton that not only grants support, but it''''s spring loaded with hydraulics for rapid transit .. ''''
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Who in heck is this wack? - Reply to this comment
- Posted by OldThought at 11:41 AM
yeah, sounds like fun "yall".
the countree wuz made for this and for runnin'' wit sizzurs.
If not good with 2 yr. old in car, how ol'' should the litt'' one be? - Reply to this comment
- y''all?
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- I grew up in the country, and this was a common sport, but I dont ever recall going 70mph...and not with a 2 yr old in he car. It is fun....ya''ll should try it some time, but leave the alcohol at home, and your kids.
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- Now there''''s a real recipe for desaster...
Posted by OffTheBack at 09:44 AM : Dec 31, 2007
LOL,,I haven''t,,but seen others do it!!! - Reply to this comment
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