Charges are pending against a College Park man involved in an accident which killed an 84-year-old Jonesboro man Jan. 14, according to Maj. Wayne Hannah of the Fayette County Sheriff's Department.

Maj. Hannah reported that the accident occurred on Ga. Highway 138 just east of Ga. Highway 314 in north Fayette. Hannah said that Matthew Irby, 67, of College Park apparently turned his concrete truck in front of a Cherolet Cavalier driven by Myra Ellen Bryson, 50, of Jonesboro.

Bryson's father, John Thomas Lanier of Jonesboro, was a passenger in the front seat of her car and was not wearing a seat belt, reports show. He sustained severe head injuries from the car windshield and was flown by Clayton County police helicopter to Georgia Baptist Hospital, where he died several hours after the crash, Hannah said.

Hannah said that Sgt. Todd Chitwood of the FCSD Traffic Enforcement Division is still investigating Fayette County's first traffic fatality of 1999. It is anticipated that Irby will be charged with failure to yield while turning left and misdemeanor vehicular homicide, he added.

Irby was transported to Fayette Community Hospital with complaints of back pain, and Bryson was taken to Southern Regional Hospital with chest injuries, Hannah noted.

Blood samples from both drivers are submitted to the state crime lab as standard procedure in fatal crashes, Hannah said, but alcohol is not suspected in the accident.

Last year there were 10 traffic deaths in unincorporated Fayette County, the highest in the last several years, Hannah said. The last "low point" was 1993 with four fatalities, he said.