A head-on collision Wednesday afternoon in Clayton claimed the lives of two Franklin, North Carolina, women.
81-year-old Judith Coolidge Hughes and 91-year-old Patricia Childers Safko died in the wreck on Highway 76 east of McWorter Lane, when Hughes’ Mercedes Benz drifted into a lane of traffic on GA 2/US 76 and struck a Ford Ranger. The 71-year-old driver of the pickup was life-flighted to an area hospital for treatment of his injuries.
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