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Valeria Hawkins was driving on I-20 with two passengers when her vehicle left the road and hit a tree. She died at the scene, and her passnegers were taken to a hospital in Tuscaloosa to be trated for their injuries. Troopers are as of yet unsure what caused the accident. Check back for updates!
Trooper Albert Paxton says 54-year-old Don Knight of Pearl, Mississippi, died in Tuesday's fiery chain reaction accident.
Authorities in Fort Worth say a teenager was struck and killed by a train on Thursday morning.
Initial reports were that the victim was a child, but officers are now telling KRLD that the victim appears to be around 18-years-old.
Police are still investigating the incident and have not uncovered the details surrounding the death.
“It’s difficult to say,” said Raymond Bush with the Fort Worth Police Department. “It involves death, so we’re going to involve our homicide unit as standard procedure. We don’t know the details of how it happened.”
The second accident happened just before 10 p.m. in Irondale. Willy Marie Deilen Jr. was driving his Toyota Tacoma pickup truck east on Interstate 20.
Deilen lost control for unknown reasons, and left the roadway. His truck flipped several times and then struck an embankment and at least two trees.
He was thrown from the truck, and pronounced dead at the scene at 10:09 p.m.
Police in suburban Atlanta have identified a man who died after being ejected from his vehicle during a rollover crash.
Cobb County police said in a statement that 51-year-old Tommy Pierson of Lawrenceville was riding in a 1994 Ford Explorer on I-20 when he lost control Saturday night in Austell.
Police say Pierson hit a truck in the next lane and began swerving again before spinning and flipping over. Authorities say Pierson was ejected and the Explorer landed on its roof against a concrete jersey wall. Police say Pierson was pronounced dead at Grady Memorial Hospital.
Two charter buses carrying a total of nearly 100 people collided this morning on I-20 in Kershaw County, just past White Pond Road.
As many as 50 people were hurt, eight of whom were taken to the hospital with minor injuries, in the crash that happened around 9 a.m. not far from today’s Carolina Cup in Camden. Lane blockage is expected to severely impact traffic to that event for some time.
According to troopers, one of the buses swerved to avoid a couch that was in the road. The second bus also moved to avoid the object, but ran into the back of the first bus.
A fiery accident involving two tractor trailers shut down a portion of Interstate 20 in Douglas County for several hours Thursday afternoon.
Troopers with the Georgia State Patrol say a tractor trailer caught fire after running into the back of another just shutting down all eastbound traffic just past Lee Road just shortly after noon Thursday.
Westbound traffic was also delayed due to onlooker delays.
One lane of traffic was opened around 3:30 p.m. as wreckers worked to haul away the pair of semis.
Delays are expected through the evening rush hour.