BY TERI R. WILLIAMS | PHOTOS BY DAPHNE WALKER
Britt was an athlete. He played baseball
and football throughout his childhood and basketball while in
high school. He was on the basketball court dunking baskets
the day before the accident. Like most teenagers, he wasn’t
thinking so much about the future when he and his friend
drove to Statesboro the night before his graduation from
Lyons Senior High School on June 1, 1990. It was late when
they started home. Too late.
“My friend fell asleep at the wheel, and we flipped from
one side of Interstate 16 to the other,” said Britt. Both he and
his friend were thrown from the vehicle. This was 20 years
before a seatbelt law for pickup trucks would be passed in
Georgia. Even if they had wanted to strap themselves in that
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