Teen Passes Away From Injuries From Accident

A teenager has passed away from injuries suffered when he was hit by a vehicle earlier this month along Highway 17.

16-year-old Wesley Teate passed away Saturday at Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta.

Teate was injured when he walking along Georgia Highway 17 in the Martin area near the Stephens-Franklin County line, just after 9 p.m. on May 10.

According to the Toccoa post of the Georgia State Patrol, a 2014 Nissan Sentra was traveling southbound on Highway 17 when it struck Teate, who was also walking southbound, on the fog line of Highway 17.

Funeral services for Teate will be held on Tuesday at 2 p.m. in the Hillcrest Chapel of the Acree-Davis Funeral Home.

Interment will be in Unity Baptist Church Cemetery in Westminster, South Carolina.