Editor’s note: This page was originally published in June 2022. It was last updated on Jan. 28, 2025.

Bibb County saw its first pedestrian death of 2025 when Priscilla Watson, 43, was found in the 4900 block of Bloomfield Road on Jan. 18, 2025. The death was originally announced as a stabbing but was changed to a hit-and-run following an autopsy, according to the Bibb County Sheriff’s Office. The sheriff’s office is asking for the public’s assistance for information. No arrests have been made.

In 2024, eight people have been hit by cars and killed here.  Here are the dates of those crashes and names of those killed:

• March 19*: Shamaamah Hawkins-Clyatt, 31, died Oct. 25, 2024 from injuries she received in the March 19 accident.
• April 11: James Otis Collins, 60
• May 4: Rashad Demetrius Lundy, 32
• August 16: Carmen Rodriguez, 43
• September 1: Jaxon Bilbrey, 24
• September 29: Hatima Ayana Wilkins, 25
• October 14: Royal Rhodes, 3
• Dec. 19: Daralynn Erlease Jones, 30

In 2023, 15 pedestrians and a bicyclist were killed on roads here. Five of those deaths were hits-and-run. Here are the dates of each crash and the names of those killed:

• January 20: Stephanie Renee Glover, age 39
• February 5: Alexis Davison, age 49
• February 7: Betty Jackson, age 56
• March 15: Tracie Y. Pitts, age 46
• April 5: Joseph S. Skinner, age 40
• April 24: Shamaar Palmer, age 11
• May 7: Janet V. Green-Towles, age 82
• July 5: Terry L. Crump, age 32
• August 12: Waford Bolen, age 37
• August 27: Christopher Williams, age 23
• September 7: Freddie Evans, age 67
• October 9: Sebastian Lee Hack, age 19
• October 13: Devonte Levon Kyles, age 26
• November 4: Anthonette S. Williamson, age 57
• December 17: Christopher Lipman, age 44 *Lipman died Jan. 5, 2024

In 2022, there were 17 pedestrian fatalities including two bicyclists. Seven of those deaths were reportedly hits-and-run.

In 2021, a record 17 people were killed on foot here. Three of those fatalities were hits-and-run.

This interactive map showing each fatality that occurred January 2020 – Oct. 15, 2024, was created by The Macon Newsroom using information from crash reports obtained from the Bibb County Sheriff’s Office and the Georgia State Patrol

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