Summary

Turner County, GA -- A dramatic wrong-way chase on Interstate-75 in Turner County ended in a fiery crash. The whole thing was caught on dashboard video. Turner County deputies were alerted to a tractor-trailer rig, swerving in the northbound lanes of I-75 just before 1:00am. As a Turner County deputy falls in behind him, you can see the truck swerving from side to side. You can see the truck ahead, the shiny silver box, with the lights on top. The driver weaves from the fast lane to the slow lane inside the construction zone on Northbound I-75. The Turner County deputy stays far enough back so the trucker can see his lights. The chase lasted about two miles with lights and sirens running on the cruiser. You can see the truck head into the median, then the driver starts driving north in the southbound lanes. He misses one car. Minutes later, a second tractor-trailer appears and Harrison goes around him in the slow lane. Still driving north in the southbound lane, he suddenly heads back into the median. He hits the median, the fuel tank makes the first explosion as it hits the ground, then a bigger flame cloud erupts and engulfs the truck as the trailer catches fire. What you can't see is another vehicle coming southbound. They see the truck crashed into the median, but can't stop -- they crashed into the truck as the Turner County Sheriff's deputy runs to help them. Police Chief Bryant McCard says there wasn't enough time to get in front of the truck and throw out stop sticks to blow his tires. "At the time that this all occurred, officers were responding from the city to the interstate and before they could get to the interstate the incident had occurred," said Chief McCard. The truck driver, 63-year-old Robert Harrison of Moore, South Carolina was killed. The driver of the SUV, 44-year-old Arellano Efrain of Athens, was not injured. His passenger, 38-year-old Dalia Smith of Athens, was injured, but she was treated at Tift Regional Hospital and released by late morning. Police are waiting on toxicology results to learn more about what may have caused Harrison's reckless driving. Police found no signs of alcohol or any type of drugs at the scene and say neither were a factor.