Hood v. State

Beasley, Judge.

Hood appeals his conviction for vehicular homicide in the second degree (OCGA § 40-6-393 (b)), for failure to drive in accordance with OCGA § 40-6-48 (1).

The victim’s station wagon ran out of gas at the 1-85 and 1-285 junction. He parked it in a neutral zone, a triangle defined by solid white lines at the point where the entrance ramp from 1-285 merged with 1-85. He was standing at the left rear of his station wagon, with emergency lights flashing, when Hood, driving a pickup, came off the 1-285 ramp attempting to merge onto 1-85. He struck the left rear of the station wagon…