Georgia football offensive lineman Bo Hughley was arrested after he crashed his vehicle on the UGA campus Tuesday evening and video reviewed by police show he appeared to accelerate around another car, an incident report released Friday said.
Hughley was charged with reckless driving and failure to maintain lane/improper driving on road in the one-vehicle accident.
He was driving a 2017 Chrysler 300 sedan in the area of Carlton Street and the River Road Loop, according to the report obtained from UGA Police Friday by the Athens Banner-Herald.
Hughley told police he was navigating a curve near parking lot E06 when he lost control, hit the curb with the passenger right front wheel, drove into the grass and hit a speed limit sign and came back to a stop in the roadway.
Hughley, an 18-year old redshirt freshman from Fairburn, told police he had experienced “issues” with the vehicle before and was traveling at the speed limit of 25 miles per hour. A Georgia football teammate who was a passenger also told police Hughley was driving the posted speed limit.
Police, based on frame-by-frame review of video footage, estimated that Hughley was traveling 42 miles per hour while passing the Joe Frank Harris Commons Loading Dock and accelerating into the curve where the crash occurred. He was maneuvering into the left lane to overtake a Mercedes-Benz SUV in the right lane.
Police noticed Hughley’s passenger side front wheel had landed in a ditch nearby that it said had been sheared from the frame of the car. The front bumper had been dislodged with pine straw in it and a large piece of side molding was separated from the vehicle, the report said. The sidewalk sign was found 65 feet away from where the metal was snapped.
Police said the distance of the tread marks and damage path of about 200 feet were “significantly longer” than someone going 25 miles per hour. The physical evidence showed the vehicle left the roadway and traveled on the sidewalk and across a pedestrian walkway where someone “could have been seriously injured or even killed by an out of control vehicle,” the report said. A gouge was left in the sidewalk corner, the report said.
Georgia has not commented on Hughley’s arrest or the arrest of linebacker Smael Mondon who was charged with racing and reckless driving in a separate incident on Wednesday night. Teammate Demello Jones was also charged with racing. Coach Kirby Smart is set to speak to reporters Tuesday at SEC Media Days in Dallas.
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