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A single-vehicle crash on Sunday in Chilton County claimed the life of a Prattville teenager.
Alabama State Troopers say 18-year-old Christy Christian was killed when the 2005 Nissan Altima she was driving, left the roadway and overturned. The accident occurred at 3:13 a.m. on Interstate 65 southbound at mile marker 214, which is two miles north of Clanton.
Authorities in Calhoun County say a woman and her 7-year-old son died when their car was hit by a train in Oxford.
Coroner Pat Brown tells the Anniston Star 35-year-old Temeshica Chatman and her son Nytavioun Powell were both ejected from the car when it was hit by a train Saturday morning.
Brown says Chatman was pronounced dead at the scene and her son died at the Regional Medical Center in Anniston. Oxford Police Chief Bill Partridge says Chatman's 20-year-old daughter was driving the car and was airlifted to UAB Hospital in Birmingham with life-threatening injuries.