Loganville Man Charged With Vehicular Homicide in Fourth of July Wreck That Killed 15-Year Old Girl

DAWSONVILLE, Ga. –Brayden Lewis Clark, 21, of Loganville faces multiple charges, including vehicular homicide in connection with the Fourth of July auto accident that killed 15-year-old Eliza Farrell of Suwanee and injured four people.

According to the accident report filed by Georia State Patrol Trooper T.J. Matthews, Clark, who was driving a Dodge Ram truck south on Lumpkin Campground Road, failed to stop at a four-way stop sign at the intersection of Industrial Park Road and struck a 2006 Acura driven by 16-year-old Xavier Sanchez on the passenger side.

Farrell was pronounced dead at the scene. Sanchez and the other passengers in his car, Rachel Marie Rajczak, 15, and Kevin Arias, 16, all suffered non-fatal injuries. They were extricated from the vehicle with the jaws of life and transported to Northeast Georgia Medical Center in Gainesville.

Jessica Sullens, 36, of Dahlonega, who witnessed the accident, told Matthews she saw Clark stop at the stop sign. But, in a written statement, she recanted that statement and said he did not stop but that he had told her to say that.

She also told the officer that he was “lit,” meaning he was intoxicated.

Clark is being held in the Dawson County Detention Center on $40,000 bond.

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