Clayton County man dies following single vehicle crash in Peach County

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PEACH COUNTY, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – A Clayton County man is dead following a single vehicle crash in Peach County Saturday.

According to Peach County Coroner Kerry Rooks, 56-year-old Ulis Martin Jr., of Jonesboro, was driving on Georgia highway 96 between Knoxville Street and Campus Drive around 8:30 Saturday night. Rooks said Martin’s S.U.V left the road, struck a tree, and burst into flames.

Rooks pronounced Martin dead on scene at 8:35 p.m. No one else in the vehicle or injured during the crash.

According to the Georgia Department of Transportation, the crash blocked all lanes on Georgia highway 96 until midnight.

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Amanda Corna
Amanda is a producer and anchor for 41NBC News at Daybreak and 41Today. She comes to Macon from Watertown, NY where she was a reporter, fill in producer and anchor for three years at WWNY. She covered everything from hundred year old birthdays to the shooting death of a New York State Trooper. She also earned a Syracuse Press Club Award for her feature story "A Cheer for Keslie," about a young woman with down syndrome who joins her high school cheer team and is accepted and loved by her squad. Amanda is originally from Brookfield, Connecticut, a small town in the western part of the state. She attended Western Connecticut State University and graduated in May 2014 with a B.A in Media Arts Production. From there she went on to get her master's degree in Broadcast and Digital Journalism at the S.I. Newhouse School for Public Communications at Syracuse University. When she's not working, she enjoys watching movies, traveling and spending quality time with her fiancé, family and friends.