Braselton road closed for about 6 hours Friday

FROM GEORGIA NEWS NETWORK:

Traffic is flowing again after an overturned gasoline tanker in Braselton shut down a section of Highway 53 for several hours on Friday.

First responders say the tanker overturned and skidded partially off the road shortly before 10:00 a.m.

The crash reportedly prompted the closure of all lanes of the highway for several hours, during which time traffic was diverted to New Cut Road to the south and New Liberty Church Road to the north.

Officials say all lanes were reopened around 4:00 Friday afternoon. There were no reports of injuries, and the cause of the accident is under investigation.

About the Author

Ken Stanford is Online News Editor for GLORY 97.5, a position he has held since August 2022.

Ken was born in Moultrie, Georgia, and says he knew from the time he was 5 or 6 he wanted to be a “radio announcer.” That dream was realized when he was hired by Moultrie radio station WMTM in 1960 at the age of 15 as a weekend disc jockey. A 1963 graduate of Moultrie (now Colquitt County) High School, he has spent his whole career in Georgia working for stations in Atlanta, Marietta, and Gainesville – most recently as News Director for 40 years at WDUN in Gainesville. He is a veteran of the U.S. Air Force Reserves.

Ken retired in 2011 but came out of retirement last year to help GLORY, on a part-time basis, beef-up its online news presence.

He is the recipient of many Associated Press awards and is a former judge of state and national Associated Press broadcast news contests. In 2005, he was presented with the Georgia Associated Press Broadcasters Association’s President’s Award for Excellence in Journalism and in 2019 was inducted into the Georgia Radio Hall of Fame.

He lives in Gainesville with his wife of 52 years, the former Sandra McKnight of Clio, Alabama, and they have one child, a daughter, Lisa, who lives in Cumming with her family.