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May 24, 2006

by Brian Russell

Newton -- A South Georgia man was killed in a one-car wreck in Baker County this afternoon.

24-year old Tobee Lee of Camilla was killed when this Chevy pickup truck in which he was riding wrecked on Colquitt Ford Road.

The driver of the truck, Earl Thorpe, and his wife, Tanya Thorpe, were taken to Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital with what appeared to be non-life threatening injuries.

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