Woman, 22, walking her dog is struck and killed by a front tire that flew 300 yards off man’s truck and severed her spine – as he is charged with failing to report the accident
- Brian Carmichael has been charged with failure to report an accident causing injury or death
- Officials say Carmichael, 25, was driving a pickup truck when the front right tire came off
- It traveled at least 300 yards and struck Kimberly Touchton in the head
- Touchton, 22, was walking her dog on Sunday in a Houston County trailer park when the tire hit her, severing her spine
- Her fiance became worried when she failed to come home and found her lying face down on the ground
- Deputies later found Carmichael’s truck with tire missing abandoned by the side of the road
A Georgia man has been arrested after authorities say a tire came off his pickup truck, striking and killing a 22-year-old woman as she was walking her dog.
The freak accident took place at a mobile home park near Georgia State Route 49 in Houston County on Sunday night.
Kimberly Touchton left her home between 9 and 10pm to take her dog for a walk, and never returned.
Brian Carmichael, 25 (left), has been charged with failure to report an accident causing injury or death after Kimberly Touchton, 22, was killed by a tire that had come off his truck
Touchton’s fiance, Dylan Davis, became concerned when she failed to return home from walking her dog on Sunday night and went looking for her
When Touchton’s pet made its way to the house alone about 45 minutes later, the woman’s family went out looking for her.
The county sheriff’s office received a 911 call at around 11pm from Touchton’s fiance, Dylan Davis, saying that he discovered her lying face down on the ground.
Touchton was taken to Houston Medical Center, where she was pronounced dead from her injuries.
Lieutenant Kent Bankston, with the Houston County Sheriff’s Office, told Atlanta Journal Constitution the tire had traveled at least 300 yards from an overhead bridge, severed the woman’s spine and broke her neck.
‘She probably didn’t even know what hit her, I think,’ he added.
Investigators later found the pickup truck missing its front right tire abandoned on the side of the road near the Bibb County line, according to 13WMAZ.
Touchton was found by her fiance lying face down on the ground. The tire hit her in the back of the house, severing her spine and breaking her neck
Touchton and her fiance (right) had been together for year and got engaged in September 2018
Davis penned this heart-breaking Facebook post mourning his fiancee’s tragic death
Officials ran the vehicle’s plates and determined that it belonged to 25-year-old Brian Carmichael, who was arrested on Monday evening on a charge of failure to report an accident causing injury or death.
Bankston said investigators received an anonymous tip saying Carmichael had called someone asking to pick him up after an accident, in which he allegedly said he thought he ‘had hit something,’ reported the New York Post.
Investigators say they have reason to believe Carmichael saw the dying woman in the trailer park under the bridge after the accident.
Carmichael was released from jail an hour later after posting $2,600 bond.
Touchton, of Byron, worked at a nursing home and studied at Central Georgia Technical College, according to her Facebook profile. She and Davis had been dating for many years and got engaged in September 2018.
‘I feel like my soul was ripped from my body as the horrifying tragic end of my fiance kim was taken from me,’ Davis wrote in a post Monday.