The latest wreck occurred Sunday night in south DeKalb County.

Jekonni Barber, 18, was driving a 1985 BMW that was struck by a pickup truck as he tried to turn from River Road onto Snapfinger Road just before 7 p.m. , said DeKalb police Lt. Pam Kunz.

The 16-year-old driver of the pickup and two passengers in the BMW - a 19-year-old woman and an 18-year-old man - were taken to Grady Memorial Hospital with non-life threatening injuries, Kunz said. The three, whose names were not released, were in stable condition today.

In Hall County, two 18-year-old drivers died in a traffic accidents Saturday night.

Justin K. Payne of Oakwood was alone in a 1996 Jeep Cherokee when he ran off Stephens Road, said Trooper Robert Haley of the Georgia State Patrol. Payne traveled nearly 250 feet off the roadway before apparently overcorrecting and crossing back over the road and overturning.

Payne, who was not wearing a seat belt, was ejected from the Jeep, Haley said.

In the second accident Saturday night in Hall County, 18-year-old Lazaro Chevez of Gainesville died when the truck he was driving left the road, hit a tree and overturned.

In Morgan County east of Atlanta early Saturday, 17-year-old Brandon Tolbert was killed in a wreck on Georgia Highway 24.

In Middle Georgia, a wreck Saturday near Macon left two Bibb County teens dead.

A 19-year-old driver and his passenger, who was about 15 or 16, were killed in the 3 p.m. crash when their car ran off the road and struck a tree.

On Wednesday, 14-year-old Jenna Ray of Paulding County was killed when the 16-year-old driver of a pickup truck in which she was riding lost control on a curve and wrecked in Bartow County.

That same day, Jeremy Michael Railey, 16, a junior at Cherokee High School in Canton, died when he lost control of his Mazda RX-7 on a rural Cherokee County road and crossed into the path of an oncoming SUV.

Another Cherokee High student, Christian D. Johnson, 16, died a week ago from injuries he sustained when his car struck an embankment at about 4 a.m. on Aug. 19.

Both Johnson and Railey had turned 16 within the past six weeks.

In Gordon County in northwest Georgia, 16-year-old Andrew Jackson of Plainville was driving on Ga. 53 on Aug. 18 when he attempted to pass a turning vehicle and slammed his Ford Ranger pickup head-on into a Ford Crown Victoria, according to Georgia State Patrol dispatchers.

The 64-year-old driver of the sedan was hospitalized with non-life threatening injuries. Jackson died the following day, on his 17th birthday.