Athens man charged with vehicular homicide for deadly DUI crash

John Fitzhugh Orchard

By Joe Johnson

An Athens man was arrested on Tuesday for vehicular homicide in connection with a collision last month that killed a Jackson County resident.

John Fitzhugh Orchard, 30, of Kensington Drive, was arrested on warrants charging him with first-degree homicide by vehicle and DUI.

The incident happened on the evening of December 17, when Orchard was driving a Toyota MR2  on Macon Highway and struck a Jeep Gladiator that was exiting a driveway, fatally injuring a passenger, 56-year-old Edward Nadeau of Commerce.