Allan Vincent McLeod, 71, and his son Brandon McLeod, 7,

of Fayetteville, were killed Sunday in an auto accident on Ga.

Highway 138 between Old National Highway and Bethsaida Road.

McLeod's daughter, Carla, 14, remains in Georgia Baptist

Hospital in critical condition with head injuries, according to police.

Police reports said Carla was in the front passenger seat and

Brandon in the rear seat.

Witnesses reported seeing McLeod struggling to steer

the small car after the left rear tire came off McLeod's 1994

Hyundai Excel, causing it to veer into the path of a van transporting

Navy recruits from west Georgia towns. Fulton County Police

investigators Cpl. Cleon Arrington and Cpl. Dexter White said a cause for

the wheel loss had not been determined. Neither car was

speeding, police said.

Two persons in the van, driver Teresa Hardy and recruit

Desiree Teran, both of Columbus, were also taken to Georgia Baptist

Hospital with serious injuries. White said that the other 13 persons

in the van were treated and released from Fayette Community

Hospital.

The van was not a military vehicle but hired to take the

recruits into Atlanta for induction at the Richard B. Russell Federal

Building last Monday. They were to have spent the night at a

Riverdale motel, police said.

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