Update: Cedartown driver killed in Walker Mountain Road wreck
Jun 02, 2012 | 16809 views | 21 21 recommendations | email to a friend | print
This image shows a wreck on Walker Mountain Road. One death has been reported in the wreck.(Kim Sloan, RN-T)
This image shows a wreck on Walker Mountain Road. One death has been reported in the wreck.(Kim Sloan, RN-T)
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A Cedartown man was killed in a one-vehicle wreck on Walker Mountain Road on Friday morning.

Richard Franklin Garner, 48, of Cedartown, was pronounced dead at Floyd Medical Center at 10:15 a.m. said Floyd County Coroner Barry Henderson.

The cause of death was blunt force trauma.

Garner was driving a 1974 Ford Courier pick-up truck west on Walker Mountain Road when he crossed the center line, went into a ditch and struck a tree, said Pfc. Chase Burnes of the Floyd County Police Department.

The investigation into the wreck is continuing.

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