DOUGHERTY COUNTY, GA -- The Georgia Supreme Court unanimously ruled that two former Dougherty County police officers are immune from any civil lawsuit stemming from a car crash that claimed the life of a civilian near Savannah in 2007.

The lawsuit questioned the constitutionality of a state law that grants law enforcers with civil immunity for crashes that happen while the officers are in the course of their official duties.

Officers Jeremiah Fenn and O.D. Gilliam were on their way to participate in an exercise to help curtail Savannah's high number of traffic fatalities called “Operation Rolling Thunder”.

The officers were involved in a car crash that claimed the life of Milton Wilcox.