A 21-year-old Georgia man drove nearly 20km with the headless body of a friend hanging out of the passenger side window of his pickup truck following an accident in which the man’s head was severed by a utility pole support cable, a news report said on Monday.
John Kemper Hutcherson of Marietta has been charged with first degree vehicular homicide and driving under the influence. He was being held in the Cobb County Jail on Sunday, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution said.
Police found Hutcherson in blood splattered clothing at his home 19km from the bar he and Francis Daniel Brohm (23) also of Marietta, left early on Sunday morning.
Brohm’s decapitated body was found in the pickup truck, which police said Hutcherson had left parked in the driveway before he went to bed.
A neighbour out for a walk discovered the body about 8am police said. The head was found later on Sunday at the crash site.
”It’s hard for one to imagine that you would drive [several] miles from a crash site to your home, turning in various directions, and yet not know what has happened to a passenger sitting next to you in your vehicle,” police corporal Dana Pierce was quoted by the Journal-Constitution as saying.
Police don’t know how long the friends were at the bar but said the two left after Brohm felt sick. Less than 2km from the bar, with Brohm hanging out the passenger side window, the pickup truck ran off the road, travelled about 3 metres and struck the support cable.
Brohm’s father described his son as a fun-loving person who had been friends with Hutcherson since high school. ‒ Sapa-DPA