On Friday, December 9, a teenage girl was seriously hurt after she jumped from a moving vehicle in Center Point.

According to the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Department , the incident happened at 4.15 p.m. in the 100th block of 14th Avenue Northwest. It appears that the girl was sitting in the passenger seat of a car driven by an 18 year old male friend. As the car traveled along 14th Avenue, the girl jumped out the car and fell. She was then struck by the same car.

She was transported to hospital with life threatening injuries where her current condition is unknown

Deputies said the driver is being questioned by investigators and is cooperating. It is not yet known why she jumped from the car. The Sheriff’s Traffic Accident Reconstruction Team is carrying out an ongoing investigation.

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Early on Saturday, November 12, a Fairfield man was killed in a single vehicle crash in Midfield.

According to the Jefferson County Coroner’s Office the crash happened shortly after 3 a.m. in the 700 block of Bessemer Super Highway. James Anthony Chess Jr., aged 26 was a passenger in a Nissan Altima traveling southbound at a high rate of speed when the driver loss control. Having lost control the car left the roadway and crashed into the yard of a home, where it rolled several times before coming to a rest upside down. Both Chess and the driver were ejected from the vehicle.

Both were taken to UAB Hospital, where Chess was pronounced dead at shortly before 4 a.m. There was no additional information available about the driver and his condition.

Midfield police are continuing to investigate the accident.

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On Sunday afternoon, October 9, a Selma woman was killed and six others injured in a three vehicle collision in Wilcox County.

According to Alabama State Troopers, the crash happened at about 1 p.m. on Alabama 5, some five miles south of Safford. A 2006 Chevrolet Express van being driven by 79 year old Arthur Lee Brown collided with a 2009 Chevrolet Silverado being driven by 57 year old David Edward Duke of McCalla, A second Silverado then crashed into both vehicles.

Brown was taken to Vaughn Regional Medical Center in Selma along with five other passengers including 69 year old Ora Dee Whit, who was pronounced dead a short time later. The condition of the others is not known.

Duke, the driver of the 2009 Chevrolet Silverado, was not injured in the collision.

The accident remains under investigation.

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On Wednesday night, September 7, a man was killed in a wrong way crash on the Interstate 65.

According to Alabama State Troopers the accident happened at 10 p.m. near exit 282 in Warrior. Previously 36 year old Donald Horsby Wright II of Hanceville refused to stop for Warrior police and then drove off in the wrong direction on I-65 south and collided with a Ford Ranger being driven by 67 year old James Richard Olvey of Birmingham.

Olvey was declared dead at the scene and Wright was transported to UAB Hospital with minor injuries and then booked into the Jefferson County Jail, charged with murder and was being held there without bond. A police officer was also taken to UAB with a cut to his arm which occurred when he was trying to release Wright from his vehicle after the crash. He was treated and then released.

According to troopers a preliminary investigation shows alcohol was a factor in the crash.

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On Tuesday afternoon, July 5, two teens died in a single vehicle accident in Chambers County.

According to Alabama State Troopers the accident happened shortly after noon, on rural County Road 299 some three miles south of Lanett in Chambers County, between Huguley and Cusseta.

Autumn Thompson, aged14 of Cusseta and her 15 year old boyfriend David Smith of Lanett were passengers in a 2013 Kia Soul. Neither of them were wearing seatbelts. The vehicle left the road and hit a guardrail on the side of the road near the Osanippa Creek Bridge. Both teens were declared dead at the scene.

The driver, who was aged 18, was taken to a local hospital for treatment.

Law enforcement has not yet decided if charges will be filed against the driver in the crash. Toxicology results are awaited and it is thought that speed might have been a factor.

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A woman accused of driving under the influence has been charged in Leeds with the manslaughter of another woman.

According to police, the accident happened on February 3, just down the road from the Leeds Police Department, when Jennifer Nicole Schrencongost left her lane and ran head on into another vehicle in the opposite lane which resulted in the death of the driver, Meredith Jones who died at the scene.

According to police Schrencongost was driving under the influence of something other than alcohol although they did not specify what.

Having been charged, she was released on bond.

Jones’ mother is pleased that Schrencongost has been charged alleging that she knew she was impaired and used her vehicle as a missile to kill her daughter, which was, in her opinion the same as taking a gun and shooting her.

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On Thursday, May 12, two people were killed in a five vehicle crash in Chelsea.

According to Alabama State Troopers, the accident happened just before 1 p.m. on U.S. 280 in front of Wal-Mart. A 2007 Toyota Corolla being driven by 81 year old John Vernon Alexander of Sterrett was hit by a 2010 Ford F-250 being driven by 68 year old Donald A. Hardin, of Bessemer.

Alexander died at the scene and his wife, 74 year old Carolyn Johnson was taken to UAB hospital where she later died.

Three other vehicles were involved in the crash which blocked both westbound lanes and one eastbound lane.

Hardin was not injured in the crash and neither was 43 year old Erica Lashun Scott, of Chelsea.

However, two other people were injured and paramedics took 65 year old Frederick Reid Tatum, of Birmingham, and 42 year old, Lizabeth Lee Crawford, of Harpersville, to an area hospital for treatment.

The cause of the crash is under investigation.

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On Monday, March 7, a woman was killed in a fatal wreck in Fort Payne.

Acording to Fort Payne police the accident happened at the 900 block of Glenn Blvd SW. A Jeep Wrangler being driven by 23 year old Deana M. Betz of Fort Payne left its lane and ran into the rear of a parked log truck. She was treated for minor injuries and then arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol. Her passenger, 20 year old Kimberly Michelle Beattie of Scottsboro was taken to Dekalb Regional Hospital and then transferred to Erlanger Health Systems where she was pronounced dead.

Betz was subsequently also charged with manslaughter.

The driver of the log truck was not injured.

In addition, another arrest unrelated to the crash was made at the scene when 43 year old Davy Keith Betz, of Fort Payne was charged with disorderly conduct.

The accident is still under investigation.

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A woman has been sentenced to jail for 12 years convicted of reckless manslaughter of a five year old girl.

The accident happened in January 2014 in Bibb Country when 33 year old Kathy Jones of Bessemer was driving a 1995 Chevrolet Blazer on Hopewell Church Road north of Centreville. The vehicle left the road, hit an embankment and overturned. Six people were hurt and 5 year old Isabel “Izzy” Parks of West Blockton was killed. Jones was allegedly on methamphetamine at the time of the accident, no one was wearing a seat belt and one of the children was in Jones’ lap at the time of the accident.

Isabel’s parents, David and Danielle Parks, now of McCalla, were each indicted on one count of criminally negligent homicide and four counts of aggravated child abuse and their trial will be held in June this year.

Jones, pleaded guilty to manslaughter under a plea deal with the district attorney’s office rather than going to trial on a murder charge.

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On Tuesday October 20, a young mother lost her life in a crash with an 18 wheeler.

According to Alabama State Troopers the accident happened at approximately 8.15 a.m. at the intersection where Dunavant Valley Road and Narrows Parkway meet Highway 280.

They went on to say that 25 year old Jordan Alexa Mays, of Birmingham was killed when her 2008 Honda CR-V was in collision with a 18 wheeler. The impact caused both vehicles to be pushed hundreds of feet down an embankment coming to rest at the edge of a parking lot. Mays was pronounced dead at the scene of the accident. The force of the impact caused the left hand side of the SUV to be pushed over to the right side and amazingly Mays’ eight month old son, Maddoc, appears to have escaped serious injury and was taken to Children’s Hospital in Birmingham where his condition was described as good. The driver of the 18 wheeler, 39 year old Chassidy Renae Garner-James, of Holly Springs was taken to Grandview Medical Center as a precaution.

Witnesses commented that the volume of traffic and steep hills make this a dangerous area. Alabama State Troopers continue to investigate the cause of this tragic accident.

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