Bo Hughley, an offensive lineman for Georgia football, was taken into custody after he crashed his car on the UGA campus on Tuesday night. According to an incident report made public on Friday, police observed Hughley appearing to speed around another automobile on camera.
Hughley was accused of driving recklessly, failing to stay in his correct lane, and driving improperly on the road following the single-vehicle collision.
He was operating a 2017 Chrysler 300 car at Carlton Street and the River Road Loop, as per the Athens Banner-Herald’s acquisition of the UGA Police report on Friday.
Hughley said to the police that he lost control of his vehicle while negotiating a turn close to parking lot E06, struck the curb with the passenger’s right front wheel, went through some grass, struck a speed limit sign, and then returned to a halt in the road.
Hughley, an 18-year-old Fairburn redshirt freshman, told police he was driving the car at the 25 mph speed limit and had previously had “issues” with it. Hughley was traveling at the speed limit when he was reported to police by a passenger who was a Georgia football teammate.
Hughley was reportedly moving at 42 miles per hour as he passed the Joe Frank Harris Commons Loading Dock and accelerated into the curve where the incident happened, according to police’s frame-by-frame analysis of the camera footage. He was moving from the right lane into the left in order to pass a Mercedes-Benz SUV.
Hughley’s front passenger wheel, which the police claimed had been ripped from the car’s frame, had fallen into a nearby ditch. The report stated that a sizable section of side molding had come loose from the car and that the front bumper, which contained pine straw, had been displaced. The location of the sidewalk sign was discovered 65 feet from the point of metal fracture.
The track marks and damage trail, which spanned over 200 feet, were “much longer,” according to the police, than a person traveling at 25 miles per hour. The vehicle veered off the road and across a pedestrian walkway, where someone “could have been seriously injured or even killed by an out of control vehicle,” according to the assessment based on the physical evidence. According to the report, there was a gouge in the sidewalk corner.
Hughley’s arrest and the arrest of linebacker Smael Mondon, who was charged with speeding and reckless driving in a separate incident on Wednesday night, have not been addressed by Georgia. Demello Jones, a teammate, was also accused of racing. Speaking to reporters on Tuesday at SEC Media Days in Dallas is Coach Kirby Smart.
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