Driver may have fallen asleep at the wheel
ALBANY, GA. -- Two young soldiers are dead after a fiery crash in Worth County late Sunday night.
18-year-old Lonnie Cooke of Clay County was driving a Dodge Charger north on Highway 112 when the car veered off the road and struck a tree.
The car then burst into flames.
Cooke and his unidentified passenger were killed.
Both men arrived in Albany on Friday on a bus from a Kentucky Army Base.
Initial indications are that Cooke fell asleep behind the wheel.