A controversial intersection in Orchard Hill was the site of a three-car wreck Saturday afternoon.

The intersection in question is where County Line Road crosses Macon Road and becomes Johnston Road. Spalding County placed a stop sign there but it was removed after Orchard Hill, whose municipal authority encompasses that intersection, objected.

“We was coming this way,” said Curtis Sealey, 21, the driver of one of the cars. He and passenger Samantha Long were coming back to Griffin after dropping some items off in Lamar County.

Long, 19, who is the owner of the car, described what happened next.

“The next thing I know, she’s pulling out,” she said, referring to Kaylee Medders, who was driving another car involved in the wreck.

Sealey chose to keep going forward and clip Medders rather than swerve and risk a head-on collision with another vehicle. Long denied they were speeding.

She then spoke her mind about how things should be different at that intersection.

“I wish they would do something this area here,” she said. “I wish they would either turn it into a red light or a four-way stop.”

She said otherwise, accidents would continue to occur there.

James Veight, 74, was also involved in the wreck. He said Medders struck the front of the blue car, spun around and then hit him.

“I’m not from around here,” Medders, a Hampton resident, said. “I thought it was a four-way stop.”

She said she said she saw another car stopped and was hit by Sealey, who she said was speeding. She spun around and hit Veight.

C.J. Hayes, a retired Orchard Hill firefighter, directed traffic around the wreck site.

“I didn’t see it but I was in my house,” she said.

She heard the wreck, dialed 911 and headed out to help.

She too had something to say about the intersection. She said a stop sign would cause more accidents but a caution light would be good and a full traffic light would be even better.

Lisa Jones, Medders’ mother, was on the scene. She conceded the accident was her daughter’s fault but criticized the intersection design.

“I just think that thing needs attention,” she said. “She did yield.”

Sgt. Damon Riggins of the Georgia State Patrol said Medders would be charged with failure to yield after stopping at a stop sign.