Crash Kills Woman, Banks Is Charged

Former NFL and USC linebacker Chip Banks was arrested after his car collided with another in north Atlanta, killing a 50-year-old woman, police said.

Banks, 35, was charged with second-degree vehicular homicide, giving false information to officers, driving without a license and crossing the median, police spokesman Sgt. Melvin Denson said.

Mattie Lee Chaney of Atlanta was dead at the scene Monday after Banks’ car hit hers head on, police said.

Banks was treated at a hospital for facial injuries and was released.

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