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A fuel spill resulting from an overturned 18-wheeler wreck has closed a section of Interstate 20/59 eastbound near Valley Road, according to police.
Authorities are diverting traffic off the interstate at Exit 118. Drivers can reenter the highway at Exit 119, the Fairfield Police Chief said.
The diversion likely will last for several hours. Davis urges drivers to avoid the area.
The southbound lane of Interstate 65 was closed near Atmore late Sunday after at least two people were killed and one critically injured in a multi-vehicle accident involving an 18-wheeler.
According to the Alabama Highway Patrol, the southbound lane will remain closed until around 10:30 a.m. Traffic is being rerouted at the 54 mile marker.
The Poarch Creek Tribal Police Department received the first call about an accident at the 51 mile marker at about 10:45 p.m. Sunday night, a dispatcher there said.
Two children from North Carolina died in a five-vehicle crash in southwest Alabama.
State troopers said 7-year-old Naziya Gillis and 9-year-old Nadir Gillis of Camp LeJune, N.C., were killed when the Dodge Challenger in which they were riding was struck by a tractor-trailer truck.
The driver of the Dodge, 28-year-old Isom Hodges, and a passenger, 30-year-old Labricia Hodges, both of Camp LeJune, were injured. The driver of another car, 42-year-old William Rousey of Lexington, Ky., was also injured. No other drivers, including the truck driver, were injured.
A 26-year-old Birmingham man died early Thursday after crashing into a utility pole in Bessemer, according to the Jefferson County Coroner's Office.
The victim has been identified as Christopher Amon Wilson, Deputy Coroner Phillip Russell said.
Wilson, who authorities believe was speeding, was driving south on 9th Avenue North near 26th Street early Thursday. He lost control of his vehicle, which crashed into a utility pole and then rolled over.
The crash happened around 3:30 a.m. Wilson was taken to UAB Hospital, where he was pronounced dead about an hour later.
Four employees at a plant in Pinson were injured Saturday afternoon in an explosion, and authorities have not yet determined the cause of the blast.
Center Point Fire Department personnel responded to a report of an explosion at Pinson Valley Heat Treating Co. around noon.
All four employees were taken to UAB Hospital in Birmingham with injuries that did not appear to be life-threatening, West said.
Their conditions are not known at this time.
The plant is located at 6179 Sunrise Drive.
Alabama State Troopers remain at the scene where a driver died when a truck carrying frozen chickens overturned along Interstate 20/59 westbound between Vance and Tuscaloosa.
The wreck was reported at 6:43 a.m. Thursday between mile markers 85 and 86, the Alabama Department of Public Safety said.
The vehicle, which is loaded with frozen chickens, has been moved to the side of the roadway out of lanes of traffic.
A man was killed in a wreck this afternoon in the 1800 block of U.S. 11, according to Trussville police.
Police said the victim pulled out of a shopping center parking lot when his car was T-boned by another vehicle.
The victim was identified as Arthur Carson, 91, of Leeds, according to the Jefferson County Deputy Coroner.
A Blountsville man has died after a late Monday night wreck south of Snead, according to Alabama State Troopers.
Timothy Eric Sterling, 50, died Tuesday at a hospital after the 2004 Nissan pickup he was driving left the road, hit a tree and turned over around 11:30 p.m. Monday on Alabama 75, according to the Troopers.
The wreck happened about five miles south of Snead.
Sterling was not wearing a seat belt, according to the troopers, and the cause of the crash is being investigated.