Businesswoman dies after accident near Walhalla

An Oconee businesswoman died in the hospital about two hours after an accident this morning on what are believed to have been icy road conditions near Walhalla.  Coroner Karl Addis says Judy Tilson, 63-year old Salem resident, died in the Oconee Memorial emergency department of blunt force chest trauma.  Tilson’s accident on n. highway 11 at the Lay Mill Bridge occurred shortly before 6 this morning but, according to Addis, was not discovered until about one hour later.  At the time, Tilson was enroute to work in the Snow Creek Community near Seneca.