A late

night Saturday collision outside Durango, Colo. left a

Senoia resident dead and injured 14 other people.

John

Hollberg, 23, died when his 1990 Ford Taurus was struck

truck at 8:45 p.m. on a small county road in the western

Colorado town.

Hollberg is

the son of Frank Hollberg III, who owns Hollberg's

furniture store in Senoia.

The driver

of the truck, Bob Hardwick, 21, was charged with

vehicular homicide and other charges are pending,

according to a report from the Colorado State Patrol.

Hollberg

was working at a dude ranch this summer and had five

other people in the car when the crash occurred.

He was

traveling westbound on County Road 240 in Durango, when

Hardwick, who was traveling eastbound, crossed the center

line and hit a 1985 Toyota Tacoma pickup with 10

passengers in front of Hollberg's, the report said.

The

collision with the Tacoma drove the Tacoma off the road

and Hardwick continued driving in the eastbound lane

until he collided with Hollberg's vehicle, according to

reports.

Among the

injured in Tacoma was Luke Recker, 21, of Auburn, Ind.,

who was a basketball player at Indiana University last

fall.

Recker had

decided to transfer to the University of Arizona this

fall.

In an

interview with WTHR-13 in Indianapolis, Recker hoped for

a quick recovery period.

"I

thank God that I'm still here, along with my girlfriend

and her brother. I've just got to keep praying that we'll

all pull through this," he said.

Recker said

his most painful injury is a severely lacerated left ear.

Hollberg's

funeral arrangements can be found in his obituary on

page. `

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