Dallas-area wife killed in July 4th weekend wreck, husband injured

A Dallas area woman was killed and her husband injured in a late night wreck in the Rockmart area, according to reports from the Georgia State Patrol and Polk County Coroner Tony Brazier.

Brazier said that Leeanne Dobson, 50, of a Dallas address, was heading home when she and her husband, Robert Dobson, 58, were struck on their 2008 and 2009 Harley Davidson motorcycles around 11:50 p.m. by a 1999 Ford F-150 driven by John C. Prichard, 18, of a Rockmart address.

After Prichard struck the motorcycles, the Georgia State Patrol reported, a Howell K. Hammonds driving a 2002 Chevrolet Silverado struck one of the motorcycles as well.

Leeanne Dobson was killed upon the impact in the wreck, while her husband Robert was treated by Redmond EMS and Rockmart Fire Department personnel and taken by Lifeflight to Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta. Brazier said he remained in critical condition as of earlier this morning.

Leeanne Dobson was pronounced dead on the scene at 12:45 a.m., the cause listed as blunt force trauma from the impact.

The Dobsons were heading home from a motorcycle ride with others and had fallen behind the group, Brazier said. Members of the ride turned around to find the scene of the wreck at the intersection of Highway 101 and Highway 278, near where Highway 113 turns south to Yorkville and Villa Rica.

Prichard faces felony charges of homicide by vehicle in the first degree and a traffic citation for failure to yield after stopping at a stop sign, the Georgia State Patrol’s public information office reported.

He and Howell were both uninjured in the