Most Macon car accident claims are won or lost on two things nobody thinks about at the scene: how much insurance exists, and what percentage of the fault ends up on you. Georgia’s 50 percent bar makes the second one a cliff rather than a slope, and Georgia’s add-on uninsured motorist rule makes the first one better than most people assume.

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1. The two-year deadline and its exceptions
2. Where Macon crashes actually happen
3. Getting and reading the crash report
4. The 50 percent bar
5. What insurance covers the crash
6. Uber, Lyft and government vehicles
7. Which court hears the case
8. What the claim is worth
9. What to do now

How long do you have to file a car accident claim in Macon?

Two years from the date of the crash. O.C.G.A. § 9-3-33 is unforgiving about it: file on day 731 and the claim is gone, however clear the liability.

Four things move that date, and every one of them catches people out.

A spouse’s loss-of-consortium claim gets four years under the same statute. One crash, two deadlines in the same household.

A child’s claim is tolled until 18 under O.C.G.A. § 9-3-90, so a ten-year-old injured on Pio Nono generally has until age twenty. The parents’ claim for that child’s medical bills is a different claim, belongs to the parents, and is no tolled. It dies at two years. Families lose the medical-expense component of children’s cases on this point more often than any other.

A pending criminal prosecution tolls the clock under O.C.G.A. § 9-3-99, up to a six-year cap. If the driver who hit you is being prosecuted for DUI or serious injury by vehicle in Bibb County, the civil clock may not be running while that case is open.

Government defendants have their own, much shorter clock. A crash with a Macon-Bibb County vehicle, a Bibb County Sheriff’s Office vehicle, or one caused by a defective county road requires an ante litem notice before suit — six months for a municipality, twelve months under the Georgia Tort Claims Act for state agencies including GDOT. Miss the notice and the two-year statute stops mattering, because the claim is already barred.

One Macon-specific point on identifying that defendant. The city and county consolidated on January 1, 2014, so the entity is Macon-Bibb County, a consolidated government. Some public property is held by the separate Macon-Bibb County Urban Development Authority rather than by the government itself. Sending a correct notice to the wrong entity is the same as sending no notice.

Where do Macon car crashes actually happen?

Two categories: the interstates, and a short list of arterial intersections that GDOT has actually measured.

The intersections GDOT studied

In January 2020 GDOT published a traffic engineering study of Pio Nono Avenue (SR 247) between Eisenhower Parkway and Mercer University Drive. Over 1.13 miles GDOT counted 630 crashes from 2014 through 2018 — 207 injury crashes, 423 property-damage-only, and zero fatal crashes. Rear-end collisions were 51 percent of the total and angle crashes 27 percent, which is the signature of a signalized arterial with heavy turning movements and short following distances.

The intersection figures are the ones worth remembering. GDOT wrote that Pio Nono at Eisenhower Parkway “experienced 48.6 crashes per year. This is over ten times higher than intersections with similar characteristics which typically experience 4.0 crashes per year.” That single intersection produced 243 crashes in five years, 60 of them injury crashes. At Mercer University Drive: 163 crashes, 32.6 per year against a predicted 4.7, with 61 injury crashes. At Anthony Road: 86 crashes, 17.2 per year against a predicted 3.0.

If your crash happened at one of those three intersections, the engineering record is on your side before a single witness is interviewed — and GDOT already has a roundabout programmed at Anthony Road and restricted-crossing U-turn treatments programmed along Eisenhower Parkway.

The interstates

I-75, I-16 and I-475 converge in Macon, and GDOT calls the I-75 segment between Macon and Atlanta the state’s second most significant freight corridor. The I-16 and I-75 interchange has been under reconstruction for years — a $500 million project rebuilding eleven bridges, adding collector-distributor roads and widening both interstates. GDOT lists reducing crashes and improving sight distance among its stated purposes, though it has published no before-and-after crash figures, and neither will we.

What GDOT and the MPO have published is that I-75 southbound at I-16 was the region’s worst bottleneck in 2023 — an average maximum queue of 2.55 miles for an hour and thirty-six minutes a day. That is a congestion measurement, not a crash statistic, and the plan’s own caveat is that the interchange was under construction at the time. But a 2.55-mile stopped queue on a rural-speed interstate is exactly the geometry that produces rear-end and underride crashes.

Which corridors are not documented

Riverside Drive, Vineville Avenue, Forsyth Road and I-475 appear in Macon planning documents as congestion and level-of-service issues. None carries a crash or safety designation from any government source. A page that lists every busy Macon road as “notoriously dangerous” is padding.

How do you get your Bibb County crash report — and what does it actually prove?

Start with the agency question, because Macon answers it differently from other Georgia cities. There is no Macon Police Department. The consolidation charter, enacted as 2012 Georgia Laws HB 1171, made the Sheriff of Bibb County the chief law enforcement officer of the consolidated government and folded the former city police department into the Sheriff’s Office, effective January 1, 2014. A crash on a Macon street is worked by a Bibb County deputy and the report is a Sheriff’s Office record.

Interstate crashes on I-75, I-16 and I-475 are usually worked by the Georgia State Patrol, and those reports are held by GSP or the Department of Public Safety Open Records Unit at (404) 624-7591.

Three ways to get it

BuyCrash is where GDOT sends people. GDOT’s instructions are to select Georgia, then all Georgia agencies, then search by last name, crash date and either the report number, the VIN or a driver’s license number. There is a per-report fee, which we will not quote because BuyCrash publishes it only inside a JavaScript application and the dollar figures on other Georgia law-firm pages are guesses.

GDOT by mail Gastos $5, plus $2 for certification, by money order or cashier’s check, to 935 United Avenue SE, Building 24, Atlanta, GA 30316. GDOT’s form states in capitals that it takes at least two weeks.

Bibb County Sheriff’s Office Central Records is at 111 Third Street, Suite 1A, Macon, GA 31201, at (478) 310-4119 o (478) 310-3824, with an online JustFOIA portal for open-records requests. BSO does not publish a fee, counter hours, or a turnaround time, so nobody should be telling you what those are. And the number 478-803-2335, which appears on a lot of law-firm pages as Central Records, is not the agency’s number.

The statement of need

Georgia crash reports are exempt from routine open-records release under O.C.G.A. § 50-18-72(a)(5). The same subsection then says that anyone named in the report is entitled to a copy “either personally or through a lawyer or other representative.” The requirement is a written statement of need. It is not a sworn statement and it is not an affidavit — a different subsection of the same statute requires a writing under oath, and this one deliberately does not. The exemption exists to stop bulk harvesting by solicitors, not to keep an injured person from their own report.

What the report proves, and what it does not

The Georgia crash form is GDOT-523. It contains a field marked “Susp At Fault.” That is an officer’s roadside suspicion recorded minutes after the event, frequently before anyone has spoken to a witness. It is not a legal finding of fault and it is generally not admissible as one.

This cuts both ways, and honestly. If the box points at you, the case is not over — we have moved fault on Bibb County cases where the initial report was unhelpful, using scene photographs, vehicle damage geometry, event data recorder downloads and witnesses the officer never spoke to. If the box points at the other driver, do not assume the insurer will simply pay; adjusters dispute the officer’s conclusion routinely. Either way, the report is where the investigation starts, not where it ends.

How does Georgia’s 50 percent bar work in a Macon crash case?

Georgia is a negligencia comparativa modificada estado con un 50 percent bar, at O.C.G.A. § 51-12-33. Under 50 percent, your damages are reduced by your share. At 50 percent or more, you recover nothing.

Consider what that does to negotiations. On a $200,000 case, moving a plaintiff from 40 percent fault to 45 percent saves the insurer $10,000. Moving them from 45 to 50 saves the insurer $110,000. There is enormous pressure on that one threshold, and it is why an adjuster who sounds reasonable about “both drivers sharing some blame” is not making a concession.

The arguments that get used against Macon drivers are predictable: speed, following distance, failure to keep a proper lookout, and — in intersection cases on Pio Nono, Eisenhower and Mercer University Drive — who had the protected movement. Because more than half the crashes GDOT counted on Pio Nono were rear-end collisions, the reflexive assumption that the following driver is entirely at fault comes up constantly. It is a presumption, not a rule, and it can be rebutted with brake-light evidence, sudden-stop testimony and event data recorder downloads.

The empty chair

Georgia allows a defendant to ask the jury to assign fault to a non-party — a phantom vehicle that forced the manoeuvre, an unidentified driver who fled, a contractor who set up the work zone, a bar that overserved — on 120 days’ notice before trial. Fault assigned to an empty chair is fault that nobody pays. Working out who the defence will point at is part of building the case, not something to react to at the pretrial conference.

The 2022 change, and why the filing date matters

The Georgia Supreme Court held in Alston & Bird LLP v. Hatcher Management Holdings, 312 Ga. 350 (2021), that the apportionment statute as written did not allow apportionment in single-defendant cases. The legislature answered with House Bill 961, effective May 13, 2022, applying to cases archivado after that date. Two Macon crashes from the same week can be governed by different apportionment rules depending on when suit was filed.

Distraction

GOHS reports that 55 percent of all Georgia crashes in 2023 involved a confirmed or suspected distracted driver. Georgia’s hands-free law makes that more than an anecdote: phone records, and increasingly infotainment-system downloads, are discoverable, and a documented distracted driver is very hard to place below 50 percent fault.

What insurance actually covers a Macon car accident?

Georgia is a culpa state. There is no no-fault system, no mandatory personal injury protection, and no automatic medical coverage while your claim is pending. The at-fault driver’s liability insurer pays — eventually, and only up to its limits.

The limits are low

Georgia’s minimum is 25/50/25: $25,000 per injured person, $50,000 per occurrence, $25,000 property damage. The chain of authority runs O.C.G.A. § 33-34-4 to § 40-9-2(5) to § 33-7-11(a)(1)(A). A single ambulance ride to Atrium Health Navicent and one night in the trauma unit can exceed $25,000. Statewide, GOHS counted $2.4 billion in motor-vehicle hospital and emergency department charges in 2023. Minimum limits and modern medical costs are not in the same universe.

Georgia UM is add-on, and it is worth real money

This is the provision worth understanding before you speak to anyone. Under O.C.G.A. § 33-7-11, Georgia uninsured and underinsured motorist coverage is add-on unless the policyholder elected reduced-by coverage in writing. Section 33-7-11(b)(1)(D)(ii)(I) sets add-on as the default.

Work the arithmetic. The driver who hit you on Eisenhower Parkway carries the $25,000 minimum. You carry $100,000 in UM. Under reduced-by coverage — the default rule in several neighbouring states — your UM pays the $75,000 gap and you end up with $100,000. Under Georgia’s add-on default, your UM pays its full $100,000 además de the tortfeasor’s $25,000: $125,000. Identical facts, identical policies, $25,000 apart on the strength of one statutory default.

Two practical consequences. First, ask for the insurer’s signed UM selection form early; if the carrier cannot produce a written reduced-by election, the coverage is add-on. Second, UM in a Georgia household often reaches further than people expect — a resident relative’s policy may cover you even though it was not your car.

Hit-and-run and uninsured drivers

Georgia UM covers a genuine hit-and-run, but the practical requirement is corroboration: physical contact, or independent evidence that a phantom vehicle caused the crash. This is where the first hour matters most. Get the responding deputy or Trooper to record the account, canvass for a witness, and note nearby businesses with exterior cameras — I-75 frontage properties and the Pio Nono commercial strip both have them, and the footage is usually overwritten within days.

Where else the money is

A driver who was working at the time brings employer liability. A commercial vehicle brings a commercial policy. A bar or restaurant that overserved brings a Georgia dram shop claim. Then there are umbrella policies, which nobody volunteers and which are found by asking the right questions in written discovery. In a serious Macon case, the gap between a $25,000 result and a real one is almost always a policy that somebody went and found.

Liens

Georgia hospitals can perfect a lien against your recovery under O.C.G.A. § 44-14-470, and health insurers assert reimbursement rights. After a Level I trauma admission the lien can be a large fraction of the settlement. Negotiating liens down is real work with a dollar-for-dollar payoff to the client, and it is part of the job, not an afterthought.

What if an Uber, a Lyft or a government vehicle was involved?

Rideshare

Georgia regulates transportation network company insurance at O.C.G.A. § 33-1-24 — not, as several Georgia pages state, at § 40-1-193. From the moment a driver accepts a ride request until the ride is complete, the TNC must carry $1 millón in liability coverage and uninsured motorist coverage of 100/300/25, required since July 1, 2023.

Georgia is the only state in which this firm practices that mandates rideshare UM. In Tennessee, Mississippi, Arkansas, Texas and Kentucky, Uber’s own insurance certificates state that UM and UIM are not included. A Macon passenger has protection that the identical passenger in Memphis does not.

But the period qualifier is everything. During the app-on, waiting-for-a-ride-request phase, the required coverage falls to 50/100 liability with no UM requirement at all. Two people hit by rideshare drivers on the same Macon street minutes apart can face completely different coverage. Which phase applied is proven from the TNC’s trip data, not from what the driver remembers, and that data needs to be preserved in writing early.

Government vehicles and road defects

If a Macon-Bibb County vehicle, a Bibb County Sheriff’s Office vehicle, a school bus, or a defective county or state road contributed to your crash, you are in a different legal world. Sovereign immunity limits what can be recovered, and the ante litem notice is due long before the two-year statute — six months for a municipality, twelve months under the Georgia Tort Claims Act for state agencies including GDOT.

Macon adds an identification problem. The government is Macon-Bibb County, consolidated since 2014. The Sheriff’s Office is a constitutional office within it. The Urban Development Authority holding the Macon Mall property is a separate governmental entity again. Serving a perfectly good notice on the wrong body is the same as serving none, and there is no cure once the window closes.

Work zones

The I-16 and I-75 interchange reconstruction has kept parts of Macon under active construction for years, with shifting lanes, temporary barrier and reduced shoulders. A work-zone crash may involve a private contractor as well as GDOT, and contractor liability is not subject to the state’s notice rules. Identifying which entity controlled the traffic pattern on the day of your crash is the first step, and the traffic control plan is obtainable.

Which court will hear a Macon car accident case?

A Bibb County car accident case can be filed in the State Court of Bibb County o el Superior Court of Bibb County. Both sit at 601 Mulberry Street. Both are courts of record with juries. Neither has a monetary ceiling.

That last point is worth stating plainly because it is so often stated wrongly. O.C.G.A. § 15-7-4(a)(2) gives Georgia state courts jurisdiction, concurrent with the superior courts, over “the trial of civil actions without regard to the amount in controversy.” There is no dollar cap in State Court. The court people are thinking of is Magistrate Court, capped at $15,000 by O.C.G.A. § 15-10-2(a)(5) — a no-jury small-claims forum, and the wrong place for an injury case with real medical bills.

The State Court of Bibb County has two judges, Chief Judge Jeff Hanson and Judge Sharell F. Lewis, and civil e-filing is mandatory in most civil cases through PeachCourt. Superior Court sits in the Macon Judicial Circuit, which covers Bibb, Crawford and Peach Counties.

The real dividing line between the two is not money — it is equity. O.C.G.A. § 23-1-1 vests equitable jurisdiction in the superior courts, so a case needing an injunction, a declaratory judgment or a determination of title to land belongs there. An ordinary car crash case does not. Many Georgia plaintiff lawyers prefer State Court for one practical reason: its judges carry no felony docket, so nothing bumps a civil jury trial.

Venue, and who chooses it

Georgia venue starts from the constitutional rule that a defendant is sued where the defendant resides. O.C.G.A. § 9-10-31 then provides that joint tortfeasors living in different counties may be sued together in any county where one of them resides — and the plaintiff makes the election. In a two-defendant Macon crash with a local driver and an out-of-county owner, the choice of forum is a strategic decision worth money. Section 9-10-31(d) is the counterweight: if every defendant residing in the forum county is discharged before or upon verdict, a nonresident defendant may require the case be transferred.

Federal removal

Macon is the headquarters of the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Georgia, in the William A. Bootle Federal Building at 475 Mulberry Street, and Bibb County sits in the Macon Division under 28 U.S.C. § 90(b)(2). A defendant with complete diversity of citizenship and more than $75,000 in controversy can remove your Bibb County case there. Out-of-state trucking companies and national insurers frequently do, and it changes the jury pool, the discovery schedule and the timetable.

What is a Macon car accident claim worth?

Nobody can value your case from a web page, and any firm quoting a number before reading your records is guessing at your expense. Here is what the number is actually built from.

Daños económicos

Medical expenses to date, the cost of future treatment, lost wages, and diminished earning capacity where the injury changes what you can do for a living. Every one of these is provable to the dollar and every one of them gets attacked — usually on the theory that treatment was excessive, that a gap in treatment shows you recovered, or that the degenerative changes on your MRI predate the crash.

Daños no económicos

Pain, suffering, disfigurement, and the loss of things you used to do. Georgia imposes no gorro on these in ordinary negligence; the legislature tried and the Supreme Court struck the cap down in Atlanta Oculoplastic Surgery v. Nestlehutt, 286 Ga. 731 (2010). There is no multiplier a Georgia court recognises, whatever an online calculator tells you. What moves this figure is documented, specific, human detail.

Punitive damages

Capped at $250,000 by O.C.G.A. § 51-12-5.1 — except where the defendant acted with specific intent to harm, and except in DUI cases, where there is no cap at all. GOHS attributes 27 percent of Georgia’s 2023 traffic fatalities to alcohol-involved crashes, so the DUI exception is not a rarity.

Property damage and diminished value

Georgia recognises diminished value: even a properly repaired vehicle is worth less because it now carries an accident history. This is a separate claim from repair cost, and it is routinely left on the table by people who settle the property side quickly to get a car back.

What subtracts

Your percentage of fault, up to the 50 percent cliff. Available policy limits, which cap far more Macon cases than liability ever does. Hospital and health-plan liens. And on a government claim, sovereign immunity limits.

Georgia Bar rules prohibit us from predicting outcomes or publishing guarantees, and prior results never guarantee a similar outcome. What we will give you at the outset is a straight read on liability, coverage and realistic range — including telling you when a case is worth less than you have been led to believe.

What should you do in the first week after a Macon crash?

Get checked out, today. Closed head injuries, internal bleeding and disc injuries commonly present hours or days later. A gap between crash and first treatment is the most common argument made against a Georgia injury claim, and it is completely avoidable.

Make sure a report exists. Georgia requires reporting a crash involving injury, death or apparent property damage of $500 or more. If nobody came out, get one filed. A claim with no report starts behind.

Photograph everything before it moves. Both vehicles from several angles, final rest positions, debris, skid marks, the signal or sign, sight lines, road surface and weather. Photograph the other driver’s licence, insurance card and plate. On an arterial like Pio Nono or Eisenhower, photograph the lane configuration and turn arrows — geometry decides intersection cases.

Get witness names and numbers at the scene. A week later they are unfindable.

Look for cameras and say so in writing. Businesses along Pio Nono, Eisenhower Parkway, Riverside Drive and the I-75 frontage often have exterior cameras, and the footage is typically overwritten in days. A written preservation request sent quickly is one of the highest-value things a lawyer does early.

Notify your own insurer — notice only. Your policy requires prompt notice and your UM coverage may be the biggest source of money in the case. Notice is not a recorded statement.

Decline the other insurer’s recorded statement. You are not required to give one. The questions are built to lock in a version of events before anyone knows how badly you are hurt.

Do not accept a quick property-damage settlement that includes a general release. Read what you are signing. A release drafted to cover “all claims” can end your injury claim for the price of a bumper.

Stay off social media. A photograph of you upright at a family event will be shown to a jury without the context that you spent the next two days in bed.

Keep records. Bills, explanation-of-benefit forms, mileage, receipts, discharge instructions, the employer’s note about missed work. A short daily log of pain and limitations is worth more at deposition than most people believe.

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Macon car accident claims: frequently asked questions

How long do I have to file a car accident lawsuit in Macon?

Two years from the crash under O.C.G.A. § 9-3-33. A spouse’s loss-of-consortium claim gets four years. A minor’s own claim is tolled until age 18 under § 9-3-90, but the parents’ claim for that child’s medical bills is not tolled and expires at two years. If a government vehicle or a defective public road is involved, an ante litem notice is due first — six months for a municipality, twelve months under the Georgia Tort Claims Act.

Is Georgia a no-fault state for car accidents?

No. Georgia is a fault state with no mandatory personal injury protection. The at-fault driver’s liability insurer pays, up to its limits, and there is no automatic pot of medical money while the claim is pending. Georgia’s minimum limits are 25/50/25, which a single trauma admission can exhaust, so your own uninsured and underinsured motorist coverage is often the more important policy.

What does it mean that Georgia UM coverage is add-on?

Under O.C.G.A. § 33-7-11 Georgia UM is add-on unless the policyholder signed a written election for reduced-by coverage. Add-on means your UM pays in addition to the at-fault driver’s limits rather than being reduced by them. If the at-fault driver carries $25,000 and you carry $100,000 in UM, add-on gets you $125,000 where reduced-by would get you $100,000. Ask the carrier for the signed selection form; if it cannot produce one, the coverage is add-on.

Can I recover if I was partly at fault for the Macon crash?

Yes, if you are less than 50 percent at fault. Georgia applies modified comparative negligence with a 50 percent bar under O.C.G.A. § 51-12-33. At 49 percent you recover 51 percent of your damages; at 50 percent you recover nothing. Because it is a cliff rather than a slope, insurers push hard on that one threshold, and an offer to treat the crash as shared fault is rarely a favour.

Does the police report decide who was at fault?

No. The Georgia crash form GDOT-523 has a field marked “Susp At Fault,” which records the responding officer’s roadside suspicion. It is not a legal finding and is generally not admissible as one. Fault can be and regularly is changed with scene photographs, vehicle damage geometry, event data recorder downloads and witnesses the officer did not interview.

Who investigates a car crash in Macon?

The Bibb County Sheriff’s Office. There is no Macon Police Department — the consolidation charter enacted as 2012 Georgia Laws HB 1171 made the Sheriff the chief law enforcement officer of the consolidated government and integrated the former city police department into the Sheriff’s Office effective January 1, 2014. Crashes on I-75, I-16 and I-475 are usually worked by the Georgia State Patrol instead.

Which Macon intersections produce the most crashes?

GDOT’s January 2020 engineering study of Pio Nono Avenue counted 630 crashes over 1.13 miles between 2014 and 2018. The worst location was Pio Nono at Eisenhower Parkway, which GDOT recorded at 48.6 crashes a year against 4.0 for comparable intersections — over ten times higher. Pio Nono at Mercer University Drive ran 32.6 a year against a predicted 4.7, and Pio Nono at Anthony Road 17.2 against a predicted 3.0.

What if the driver who hit me had no insurance or fled the scene?

Your own uninsured motorist coverage is the route, and in Georgia it is add-on by default. For a hit-and-run the practical requirement is corroboration — physical contact or independent evidence of a phantom vehicle. That makes the first hours critical: get the account into the officer’s report, find a witness, and identify nearby businesses with exterior cameras before the footage is overwritten.

I was hit by an Uber driver in Macon. What coverage applies?

It depends entirely on which phase the driver was in. Under O.C.G.A. § 33-1-24, from acceptance of a ride request through completion of the ride, the company must carry $1 million in liability plus 100/300/25 uninsured motorist coverage — Georgia is the one state where rideshare UM is mandatory. But during the app-on, waiting-for-a-request phase, the requirement drops to 50/100 liability with no UM at all. The phase is proven from trip data, which should be preserved in writing early.

Can I claim the lost value of my repaired car?

Yes. Georgia recognises diminished value — the loss in market value a vehicle suffers from having an accident history, even after a proper repair. It is a separate claim from the cost of repair, and it is frequently missed by people who settle the property damage quickly to get their car back.

Which court will my Macon car accident case be filed in?

Usually the State Court or the Superior Court of Bibb County, both at 601 Mulberry Street. Neither has a dollar limit — O.C.G.A. § 15-7-4(a)(2) gives State Court jurisdiction without regard to the amount in controversy. Magistrate Court is capped at $15,000 and is rarely appropriate. A defendant with diversity of citizenship and more than $75,000 at stake may remove the case to the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Georgia, Macon Division.

What does it cost to hire a Macon car accident lawyer?

Nothing up front. We work on a contingency fee, so our fee is a percentage of what we recover and there is no fee if there is no recovery. Case expenses are advanced by the firm. The percentage and the expense terms are in a written agreement you see before anything starts. Southern Injury Attorneys does not maintain an office in Macon; our only Georgia office is in Atlanta.

This page is legal information, not legal advice, and does not create an attorney-client relationship. Statutes, ordinances and case law change; every case turns on its own facts. Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Responsible attorney: Larry “Jimmy” Peters, Georgia Bar No. 936535. Southern Injury Attorneys does not maintain an office in Macon; our only Georgia office is in Atlanta, and Bibb County matters are handled from there and from our Memphis headquarters.