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Charges unlikely in Forsyth County pedestrian death
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No charges will be filed against a Cumming man who authorities say accidentally struck and killed a 59-year-old woman who was standing in a north Forsyth road last week.Forsyth County Sheriff’s Sgt. Chris Shelton said Joan Kyle likely was under the influence of alcohol when she walked outside the home she was living in to smoke a cigarette last Friday night.“She was actually standing in the middle of the road in front of the house,” Shelton said Wednesday. “She was waving at motorists as they were passing by.“We’d gotten a couple of calls on her before the crash.”Shelton said deputies were en route to the home on Doctor Bramblett Road, just north of Elzey Drive, by the Sherwood Forest subdivision, but arrived too late.According to Shelton, the 62-year-old driver did not see Kyle, who was wearing dark clothes, as he approached in a 2007 Cadillac CTS at about 9:30 p.m. Friday.“He was in a pack of cars traveling north on Doctor Bramblett Road,” Shelton said. “The other cars saw her and started dodging her or maneuvering so they didn’t strike her.“The moment he saw her, he attempted to brake to avoid her, but was unable to.”Kyle’s body was sent to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation’s crime lab for an autopsy.