August 11, 2021
By: Dwayne Page
A man indicted for vehicular homicide in a 2018 fatal crash has been sentenced in DeKalb County Criminal Court.
32 year old Raymond Rollins entered a guilty plea to the charge Monday and received a six year sentence to serve at least 30%. The term is to run concurrently with another case against him. Rollins has been given 904 days of jail credit.
The crash occurred December 13, 2018 on Highway 70 at Liberty.
According to the accident report filed by Trooper Chris Delong of the Tennessee Highway Patrol, 28 year old Amanda L. Smith and Rollins were in a white 1998 Ford Mustang traveling west in the eastbound lanes and struck a 2014 Honda Accord, driven by 37 year old Charlie R. Holman of Sparta who was eastbound in the right hand lane. As Holman attempted to swerve left to avoid a collision, the right front end of the Mustang struck his car on the passenger side. Both Rollins and Holman sustained non-life threatening injuries in the crash
DeKalb EMS performed CPR on Smith at the scene and transported her to Ascension Saint Thomas DeKalb Hospital where she was pronounced dead. A helicopter ambulance had been summoned but was later cancelled.
Members of the DeKalb County Volunteer Fire Department and DeKalb County Sheriff’s Department were also on the scene.