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A single-vehicle crash that occurred on Tuesday in Wilcox County, claimed the lives of two Alabama residents.
The accident happened at 4:30 a.m., seven miles south of Catherine on Alabama Highway five. The crash claimed the lives of 48-year-old Camilla Allen of Pine Hill and 54-year-old Ronnie Mitchell of Thomasville.
The accident occurred when the 1995 Jeep Cherokee, which was being driven by Allen, struck a wild boar, left the roadway and overturned several times.
The funeral for a popular air show pilot who died in a plane crash over the weekend will be held Monday at the Fargo Air Museum.
Jim “Fang” Maroney died Sunday when he crashed his plane into the side of a mountain south of Knoxville, Tenn., in the Cherokee National Forest.
It took crews some time to recover his body, but it has been retrieved and it will be sent to Fargo on Friday, said Dick Walstad, co-chairman of the Fargo AirSho.
The funeral will be 2 p.m. at the Fargo Air Museum, 1609 19th Ave. N., Walstad said.
A second accident killed another man on the same Cherokee County road within a few hours Saturday morning.
According to Georgia State Patrol, 52-year-old John Meyer was riding a motorcycle on Arnold Mill Road when the he crossed the centerline of the road at O'Hara Drive and hit a concrete mixer truck head-on.
The crash occurred around 11:15 a.m.
Authorities say the Meyer was killed on impact. No one in the concrete mixer truck was injured.
A driver was found dead by search and rescue crews Sunday morning after his vehicle veered off the roadway and down a steep wooded embankment in Mill Valley, according to the Marin County Sheriff’s Office.
At about 10:30 a.m. the Marin County Sheriff’s Search and Rescue Team was called upon by Mill Valley police and fire crews to assist in locating the driver of a black Jeep Cherokee that had traveled about 50 feet down an embankment in the 100 block of Greenwood Way, a Marin Co. spokesman said.