Funeral On Saturday For Driver Killed In 3-Car Accident

CANTON, GA — A funeral service will be held on Saturday for the Canton resident who died early Wednesday in a three-car crash on Interstate 575 in Cherokee County. Friends and family will say goodbye to Robert Allan Stone, 22, at 10 a.m. Aug. 4 at Darby Funeral Home, according to his obituary.

Stone died in an accident reported to 9-1-1 dispatchers around 12:36 a.m. Aug. 1 on the northbound side of the interstate near Ga. 140/Hickory Flat Highway in Canton.

Investigators with the Cherokee Sheriff's Office Traffic Enforcement Unit, which also responded to the collision, determined a vehicle driven by Stone was traveling northbound when he lost control, rolled over and came to a rest in the middle of the highway, the agency previously told Patch.

That vehicle was hit by two additional vehicles traveling northbound. Stone was pronounced dead at the scene of the accident, the sheriff's office said.

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The driver of the second vehicle was transported to WellStar Kennestone Hospital for treatment of non-life threatening injuries. The driver and passenger of the third vehicle did not report any injuries.

Stone is survived by father, Jeff Stone of Canton; mother, Sharon Stone of Boise, Idaho; brothers, John Stone and Jack Stone, both of Canton; and grandfather, Bill Moody of Harrison, Tennessee, his obituary notes. The family asks that in lieu of flowers to make donations to the Arnold Palmer Foundation.

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