CARROLL COUNTY, Ga. — Testimony began Wednesday in the retrial of the mayor of Buchanan and former state trooper accused of causing a crash that killed two teen girls in 2015.
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Mayor Andrew Scott faces charges including speeding, reckless driving and second-degree vehicular homicide.
The crash on Highway 27 resulted in the deaths of Kylie Lindsey, 17, and Isabella Chinchilla, 16. The crash also injured two other teens.
The jury was set this morning and given instructions before opening statements, Channel 2’s Candice McCowan reported.
Jurors were shown body camera footage from first responders that captured the frantic moments following the crash. The mothers of the girls who were killed became emotional seeing and hearing the evidence presented.
Passengers in the car that survived the wreck gave testimony.
“Dillon makes that turn, I’m still looking at my phone, put my phone down, look to the right, see headlights, the next thing I know, I wake up at Grady,” Ben Finken said.
The man who called 911 after witnessing the crash also testified.
“It didn’t look good, because one car turned dead in front of the other car, right in front of them,” the witness said.
Defense attorneys asked multiple witnesses about alcohol, including Bremen Police Corporal Joseph Alexander, who was one of the first on the scene.
“I smelled an alcoholic beverage coming from inside the vehicle,’ he testified.
This is Scott’s second trial after a judge declared a mistrial in 2019, citing that prosecutors withheld evidence.
Georgia State Patrol fired Scott for the crash, and investigators say he was driving 90 miles per hour without lights and sirens seconds before the crash.
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