Injured Aquinas coach, wife return home after crash that also killed 1

AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) – We’re advised Aquinas Excessive Faculty Head Soccer Coach James Leonard and his spouse have returned residence from the hospital after being injured in a crash Saturday evening.

Their little one was additionally injured within the wreck at Wrightsboro Highway and Troupe Road however has already returned residence.

Their automobile was hit by a automotive pushed by a person fleeing police. That driver died.

“If you consider Aquinas soccer, you consider James Leonard,” mentioned Joe McBride, athletic director on the non-public faculty. “His influence has been fairly far-reaching together with his gamers and simply the scholar physique inhabitants typically.”

McBride mentioned that after seeing footage from the wreck and speaking with Leonard, “it’s a miracle they’re alive – I don’t know the way else to say it.”

McBride mentioned Leonard’s “dedication is to his household first, however he’ll be proper behind that together with his soccer boys.”

Spring soccer begins in simply over every week, and McBride says he doubts Leonard will miss any practices.

Leonard and his spouse have been in intensive take care of a time with rib fractures in addition to liver and spleen lacerations.

Leonard’s father mentioned the Georgia State Patrol mentioned the coach’s Toyota 4Runner was T-boned at over 90 mph.

The Augusta Fireplace Division and Emergency Administration Company says it was a two-car crash and that one of many vehicles burst into flames. The opposite rolled onto its aspect.

The Richmond County Coroner’s Workplace says 50-year-old Raymond Allen died on the scene.

Authorities say Allen “actively fleeing a marked Richmond County Sheriff’s Workplace automobile” when the crash occurred. He was on Wrightsboro Highway and ran a crimson gentle and hit the Leonards’ automotive and it flipped. Allen’s automotive is the one which caught hearth.

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