Man dies after being ejected during vehicle crash on Callaway Church Road in LaGrange
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A LaGrange man has died after a single vehicle accident early Saturday morning around 12:58 AM at Callaway Church Road just south of S.L. White Boulevard. Officers and first responders arrived on scene an found Bobby Ferrell Jr. ejected from the car.
Police say, “Preliminary investigation indicates that Bobby Ferrell Jr. was travelling north on Callaway Church Road at a high rate of speed when his vehicle left the roadway edge on the north side.”
Ferrell reportedly then overcorrected and lost control of the vehicle which rotated across the northbound lanes striking a tree in the median, then flipping across the southbound lanes where he was ejected. “Both Ferrell and the vehicle came to rest on the west side of the southbound lanes,” authorities added. “Alcohol and a smell of marijuana was detected during the investigation.”
The next of kin was notified in this case.
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