Rome Police and Fire units had Rockmart Highway blocked Saturday evening for around 20 minutes after a man fell from the bed of a pickup truck. (Kevin Myrick/RN-T)
According to Floyd County Deputy Coroner Ernie Studard, Willis Jerome Carey, 54, of a Pearl Street apartment in North Rome, died from the injuries he sustained when he fell from the bed of the pickup truck. He was pronounced dead at 7:55 p.m. Saturday.
After he fell from the truck, driver Timothy Mallory stopped and called 911. He told police he felt a bump and looked back to see that Carey was out of the bed of the pickup truck.
From July 3:
A North Rome man was being treated for injuries at Floyd Medical Center after he fell from the bed of a pickup truck on Rockmart Highway near Saddle Mountain Drive this evening.
According to Officer Brandon Wilson with the Rome Police Department:
Willis Jerome Carey, 54, of a Pearl Street apartment in North Rome, was hospitalized after he was riding in the back of a pickup truck and fell on Rockmart Highway around 6:20 p.m.
Driver Timothy Mallory was heading north on Rockmart Highway when he told police he felt a bump on his truck and looked behind to find a passenger out of the bed of his truck.
Carey was reported to have been breathing and conscious at the scene but was unable to answer emergency official's questions. He was taken to Floyd where he was undergoing treatment for severe lacerations to the head and body due to road rash, according to Wilson.
Traffic was blocked in both directions on Rockmart Highway for around 20 minutes while officials cleared the scene.
Only applies to front seat passengers, not to people in the bed of the truck.c
you know, there ought to be a law against riding
in the bed of a moving pickup truck on a public road......
you know, THERE IS A LAW against it!!!
so if law enforcement won't charge anybody
for this violation who doesn't get charged?
the driver or the guy who couldn't stay put??
not enough police...too many crazies....