CAIRO — Officials with the Georgia State Patrol say a teenager who was involved in a fatal car crash in January has been charged with vehicular homicide.

Anna McBride, 18, was taken into custody April 16 for her role in the collision with Thomasville High School senior Levi Knop, who was pronounced dead at the site of the crash.

Trooper Mick Johnson, who responded to the accident, said the specialized collision reconstruction team (SCRT) assigned to the case concluded its investigation last week.

The SCRT unit recommended the Brookwood School student be charged with first degree vehicular homicide, one count of reckless driving and one count of following too closely.

McBride voluntarily surrendered at the Grady County Sheriff’s Office the following morning. She was released on a $10,000 bond the same day.

The two students were likely on their way to school the morning of Jan. 29 when the accident occurred along the northbound side of Highway 319.

State Patrol said McBride struck Knop, 18, in the rear, causing him to veer off the left side of the road onto the center median and striking a tree head-on.

McBride lost control of her vehicle and spun onto the east shoulder of the highway, finally settling into a ditch. She escaped with minor injures and was conscious and alert at the scene.

Both drivers were wearing their seat belts when the time the collision occurred at approximately 7:45 a.m. near mile marker 6 near Beachton. No passengers were in either vehicle.

The collision held up northbound traffic on 319 for approximately three hours as emergency personnel from both Thomas and Grady counties responded to the incident.

A baseball player in his senior year, Knop took classes at THS and Scholars Academy.

Youth pastors from several local churches offered their services to the campuses when news of the incident broke.

A GoFundMe set up in the hours after Knop’s death exceeded its initial $10,000 goal within its first 24 hours.