Woman killed in I-20 Crash Involving Tractor-Trailer

A 29-year-old Villa Rica woman was killed in a crash with a tractor-trailer on I-20 in Austell early Thursday morning.

Matthew Adams, 48, of New Mexico was driving eastbound in the right lane of I-20, west of Riverside Parkway, when he collided with Carolina Stephanie Figueroa-Mora. Adams and his passenger, 45-year-old Rosa Long of Florida, were not injured, but Figueroa-Mora was pronounced dead at the scene, Cobb County Police report.

According Cobb Police, Figueroa-Mora was also driving eastbound in the right lane when her car began to rotate and crashed into the median wall.

After the initial impact, the car continued to rotate and hit the wall a second time before moving across the eastbound lanes in front of the freightliner pulling a 53-foot-long trailer.

The tractor-trailer driven by Adams collided with the back of Figueroa-Mora’s Pontiac, causing it to tumble.

Cobb Police ask anyone with information to contact the department at 770-499-3987.