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McMahan convicted in vehicle death

Christopher Harold McMahan was recently convicted of felony death by vehicle and felony serious injury by vehicle in Macon County Superior Court.

McMahan will spend more than two years in prison. The crimes were committed on July 31, 2012, as he was driving impaired on U.S. 441 near Franklin. McMahan’s vehicle went left of center into oncoming traffic, violently colliding with a Dodge pick-up occupied by Sylvia and Ellard Bolick.  

Sylvia Bolick was killed from the collision and Ellard Bolick sustained serious injuries. A blood sample was taken from McMahan shortly after the crash.  A state expert found McMahan’s blood to contain high levels of alprazolam (generic Xanax), an impairing prescription medication, as well as a metabolite of THC, the impairing substance in marijuana.

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