VSU student killed in car wreck
Feb. 14—VALDOSTA — A Valdosta State University student died from injuries received in a traffic incident in North Florida Friday, authorities said Tuesday.
The incident in Gadsden County, Fla., claimed the life of Jackson Charles Bebiak, 19, a first-year management major from Marietta.
He was a passenger in a car involved in a collision with a tractor-trailer on Interstate 10 at 4:19 p.m., according to a Florida Highway Patrol report.
Bebiak was taken to Tallahassee Memorial Hospital with life-threatening injuries. The university said Bebiak died Sunday.
Two other people in the car — the 19-year-old male driver from Humboldt, Tenn., and an 18-year-old male passenger from Marietta — received minor injuries, the FHP said. No one in the tractor-trailer was injured.
VSU's fraternity and sorority community hosted a candlelight vigil Monday for Bebiak.
Terry Richards is the senior reporter for The Valdosta Daily Times.
