Athens Woman Dies in Collision

An Athens woman was killed yesterday evening in a two vehicle collision on U.S. Highway 441 North of Watkinsville. 77-year-old Linda Rasch failed to yield at the Rockingwood Drive intersection near Athens Academy at about 5 p.m. Rasch was leaving Rockingwood Drive and crossing the U.S Highway 441 to turn onto the southbound lane when she failed to yield to a Dodge Dakota traveling north. The pickup, driven by a Hoschton man, crashed into the driver's side door.