I-85 Fatality indetified

Sister station WLHR in Lavonia, Georgia reports that Franklin County authorities have identified the man killed late last week in a fiery crash on I-85. Franklin County Sheriff Stevie Thomas said the driver’s name is Mitchell Ray Faulkner. He is from Glencoe, Alabama. The company he was driving for is Dairyman Supply, Inc. out of Gadsden, Alabama. The crash occurred last Friday. The 47-year old Faulkner was reported missing by his family two days later, when he did not return home on schedule. Authorities have quoted witnesses as saying the driver of the southbound truck never hit his brakes, veered to the right shoulder and into a ditch. The truck hit two trees and exploded into flames.