Two teens charged in separate fatal accidents
January wrecks occurred when drivers were speeding, court records show.
Beth Warren - Staff
Thursday, November 16, 2000

An 18-year-old faces prosecution in connection with speeding and causing a wreck that killed his mother, and another 18-year-old faces the same charge in connection with the death of her teenage passenger, court records show.

Both accidents happened in January, but the investigations remained ongoing and charges of second-degree vehicular homicide were filed this week.

An arrest warrant has been issued for Amanda Moore Teer of Grayson in a Jan. 13 crash that killed her passenger, Tiffany Joanne Vaughn, 18, of Roswell.

Teer was speeding on Pleasant Hill Road, near Cruse Road, and lost control of her Jeep Wagoneer, crossing three lanes of traffic and overturning on the road shoulder at about 5:20 a.m., Gwinnett County police Lt. R.D. Dewitt said.

The Jeep flipped several times. Vaughn was not wearing a seat belt and was thrown from the vehicle, dying at the scene. Teer was taken to Gwinnett Medical Center and treated for minor injuries.

Eight days later, Jeff G. Morgan II, then 17, was speeding when he lost control of his vehicle at about 3:50 p.m., crossing into oncoming traffic and hitting a car head-on, Dewitt said. His mother, Paula Morgan, 46, an artist and certified graphic designer, died at the scene.

The teen had been driving a 1989 Ford Mustang in the northbound lane of High- point Road. His mother was survived by a husband, daughter and another son.

Morgan was taken to Gwinnett Medical Center with serious injuries. The other driver in the accident and a 14-year-old passenger in that car suffered minor injuries, police said.

The warrants do not say how fast each teen was driving. Both face charges of misdemeanor vehicular homicide.

Police delayed the charges until learning the results of toxicology tests. Those tests showed that neither teen driver was under the influence of alcohol or drugs when their accidents occurred.