By KAY S. PEDROTTI
Staff Writer

Allan Vincent McLeod, 71, and his son Brandon McLeod, 7, of Fayetteville, were killed Sunday in an auto accident on Ga. Highway 138 between Old National Highway and Bethsaida Road.

McLeod's daughter, Carla, 14, remains in Georgia Baptist Hospital in critical condition with head injuries, according to police. Police reports said Carla was in the front passenger seat and Brandon in the rear seat.

Witnesses reported seeing McLeod struggling to steer the small car after the left rear tire came off McLeod's 1994 Hyundai Excel, causing it to veer into the path of a van transporting Navy recruits from west Georgia towns. Fulton County Police investigators Cpl. Cleon Arrington and Cpl. Dexter White said a cause for the wheel loss had not been determined. Neither car was speeding, police said.

Two persons in the van, driver Teresa Hardy and recruit Desiree Teran, both of Columbus, were also taken to Georgia Baptist Hospital with serious injuries. White said that the other 13 persons in the van were treated and released from Fayette Community Hospital.

The van was not a military vehicle but hired to take the recruits into Atlanta for induction at the Richard B. Russell Federal Building last Monday. They were to have spent the night at a Riverdale motel, police said.