A Rome woman has been charged with misdemeanor vehicular homicide and failure to yield while turning left in connection with a Feb. 10 wreck that killed a passenger in her car.

According to the Georgia State Patrol, Betty Rowlston, 87, of 118 Carriage Way in Rome was attempting to make a left turn from Turner McCall Boulevard onto Broad Street in a 2001 Buick LeSabre when it collided with a 1986 Toyota 4‑Runner driven by Dalton Cole Warren Grant, 18, of 389 Old Dalton Road in Rome.

Ann Kathleen Tolbert, 85, who was the right rear passenger in the Buick, died in the crash.

Rowlston, Nancy Bryan, 88, Clare Harvey, 77 and Charlene Covington, 81, were treated and released from Floyd Medical Center.

Rowston turned herself in at the Floyd County Jail on Friday and was released on a $2,600 bond.

Grant, who was not injured in the February collision, was booked into the Floyd County Jail on Thursday afternoon on a charge of misdemeanor failure to show proof of insurance and was released on a $610 property bond later that same day.



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