By JOHN MUNFORD
jmunford@TheCitizenNews.com

A Jonesboro woman died Friday evening after she was involved in a two-car wreck on Ga. Highway 314 in Fayetteville, police said.

It was the second fatal traffic accident of the year recorded in the city.

Police said the victim, Nancy Gail Sims, 53, had pulled onto the roadway in the path of a Ford Explorer driven by Benjamin Brasel Simpson of Fayetteville. The Explorer crashed into the driver's side of Sims' 1999 Mazda 626, according to the accident report.

Simpson was not injured in the crash, and neither were the passengers in both cars, a police spokesman said. All the occupants of both vehicles were wearing their safety restraints, the report stated.

No charges have been filed against Simpson, said Fayetteville Police spokesman Lt. Tom Kirkbride.

As state law requires for all fatal traffic accidents, drug and alcohol tests were administered to Simpson. Lt. Kirkbride said there was no evidence of drug or alcohol use at the scene.

Kirkbride said fatal auto accidents in Fayetteville are uncommon, making them all the more sad.

“We urge people to drive with caution and a neighborly attitude and look out for one another,” Kirkbride said.