(WSB Radio) -- The Georgia State Patrol is working to determine why an Atlanta area man in a work truck drove the wrong way along the Buford-Spring Connector in northeast Atlanta, causing nine seperate accidents. 

47-year-old Richard Jernigan's alleged path of destruction began just before 5 o'clock Wednesday afternoon at the Peachtree Road overpass.  It ended about a half mile later, near Monroe Drive.

Georgia State Patrol Lt. Paul Cosper tells WSB "after that last crash, the suspect jumped out of his vehicle and over the wall and went into a wooded area where the citizens involved, or witnesses, pursued him down there and held him until we got there and placed him under arrest."

Grady Luckey was one of the citizens who chased Jernigan down.  He tells Channel 2 Action News "I was just doing what I thought I had to do.  He hurt alot of people from what I hear, so it was just one of those kinda things you don't let that kinda guy get away."

Only one person was hurt.  A woman was taken to Atlanta Medical Center with serious but non-life threatening injuries. 

Jernigan is charged with DUI, reckless driving, hit and run, leaving the scene of an accident and driving on the wrong side of the road.