Georgia Deputy Dies in Collision While Responding to Call
Deputy Timothy Tavarus Rivers was killed in a head-on crash in Crawford County, marking the third line-of-duty death in the sheriff's office's history.
- Deputy Timothy Tavarus Rivers, 40, died after his patrol vehicle collided head-on with another car while responding to assist another officer.
- The incident occurred around 10 p.m. Tuesday on Marshall Mill Road, about 20 miles southwest of Macon, Georgia.
- Rivers had been with the Crawford sheriff’s office since September 2022 and previously served with the campus police at Wesleyan College.
- The other driver involved in the crash is being treated for unspecified injuries; their identity has not been disclosed.
- Rivers is the third deputy from the Crawford sheriff’s office to die in the line of duty, following deaths in 2011 and 1975.
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