Man Falls Asleep At Wheel, Sentenced To Prison For Fatal Crash

COBB COUNTY, GA — A Dallas man who fell asleep at the wheel and caused a collision that killed a Cartersville man was sentenced Monday to a year in prison.

The Cobb County District Attorney’s Office announced the sentence for Shakim Reakwon Holloman, 23, along with eight years of probation and a $1,000 fine.

Holloman was charged with first-degree vehicular homicide, reckless driving, failure to maintain lane and suspended registration. He pleaded guilty Monday and was sentenced as a first offender, according to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

Holloman was driving his van south on Dallas-Acworth Highway on Jan. 5 when he drifted into the northbound lane and collided head-on with a pickup truck driven by Daniel Rogers of Cartersville, according to Cobb Police as reported by The Marietta Daily Journal.

Rogers was pronounced dead at the scene. Holloman was not injured.

“Mr. Holloman believed he fell asleep and while asleep entered the northbound travel lane,” Cobb County Police Officer Sydney Melton said in a statement issued at the time of the accident.

Holloman, who lived a few miles from the crash scene near Allatoona High School, told investigators that “he had been up for two days” and “works overnight,” according to his arrest warrant as reported by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.