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A 66-year-old Macon man was killed Monday afternoon when the car he was driving veered off Northside Drive and crashed into a tree, Bibb County sheriff’s officials said.

The victim, Jackie E. Polk, had been traveling south when his car swerved across the road’s northbound lanes and wrecked in a stretch of Northside Drive between Tom Hill Sr. Boulevard and Riverside Drive.

Polk, a California native, had ties to Virginia and North Carolina.

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Further details of the 1:35 p.m. crash were not immediately available.

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Joe Kovac Jr. writes about local news and features for The Telegraph, with an eye for human-interest stories. Joe is a Warner Robins native and graduate of Warner Robins High. He joined the Telegraph in 1991 after graduating from the University of Georgia. As a Pulliam Fellowship recipient in 1991, Joe worked for the Indianapolis News. His stories have appeared in the Washington Post, the Seattle Times and Atlanta Magazine. He has been a Livingston Award finalist and won numerous Georgia Press Association and Georgia Associated Press awards.