Alabama Accident NewsA two-vehicle collision on Alabama Highway 119 near Hoover on Sunday afternoon killed a teenage driver and sent three other people — including a second teenager — to area hospitals with injuries. The fatal crash, which occurred shortly after 2:00 p.m. near the 26-mile marker approximately two miles south of Hoover in Shelby County, has left a community grieving...
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(Leeds / Jefferson County, Alabama — May 8, 2026) – A 31-year-old Jemison man was tragically killed Thursday afternoon when the delivery truck he was driving was struck head-on by a second commercial truck at an intersection in Leeds. The Leeds Police Department is investigating the fatal two-vehicle collision, which occurred at the intersection of Thornton Avenue NE and...
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(Calhoun County, Alabama — May 7, 2026) – A 29-year-old Anniston woman was tragically struck and killed by a commercial Freightliner tractor-trailer on U.S. Highway 431 in Calhoun County Wednesday night, according to the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency. McKala S. Brasher was in the roadway when she was hit and was pronounced dead at the scene. The tractor-trailer was...
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(Pelham / Shelby County, Alabama — April 25, 2026) – A Birmingham college student was tragically killed in a devastating wrong-way head-on collision on Interstate 65 in Pelham in the early morning hours of Friday, April 24, 2026 — just one day after his 20th birthday. Jesse Southard, a college freshman from Birmingham, was traveling northbound in the correct...
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(Trussville / Jefferson County, Alabama — April 16, 2026) – David Eugene Dobbs, 68, a beloved Hewitt-Trussville High School track and cross country coach inducted into the Alabama High School Sports Hall of Fame, was tragically killed Wednesday morning in a multi-vehicle crash involving a commercial vehicle on Interstate 59 southbound in Trussville. His wife, Anita Dobbs, a former...
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(St. Clair County, Alabama — April 14, 2026) – An 81-year-old Homewood man was tragically killed Monday evening after the vehicle he was driving struck a large commercial Isuzu truck on U.S. Highway 231 in St. Clair County, according to the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency. The crash occurred approximately six miles west of Pell City, and Charles Wade was...
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(Cullman County, Alabama — April 13, 2026) – An Arab, Alabama couple in their 70s and 80s were both killed Sunday evening when the vehicle they were traveling in was struck by a Peterbilt tractor-trailer on Alabama Highway 91 in Cullman County. The crash, which occurred near the rural community of Holly Pond, claimed the life of the husband...
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(Birmingham / Jefferson County, Alabama — April 13, 2026) – A 64-year-old Pleasant Grove man and longtime member of a Birmingham motorcycle club was tragically killed Saturday night when an unknown SUV struck his motorcycle on Interstate 59 northbound near the Arkadelphia Road exit and fled the scene without stopping. The Birmingham Police Department is actively investigating the hit-and-run...
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⚠ UPDATE — April 17, 2026 This post has been updated to reflect a fourth fatality confirmed in the days following the April 11 crash. Brynleigh Pledger, 7, the twin sister of Bryleigh Pledger, died on Tuesday, April 15, after being taken off life support at Children’s of Alabama in Birmingham. Her family announced that her prognosis was unsurvivable...
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(Trussville / Jefferson County, Alabama — April 1, 2026) – A 27-year-old Gadsden man has tragically died after his vehicle struck the rear of a tractor-trailer on Interstate 59 within the Trussville city limits late Monday night, authorities report. The Alabama Law Enforcement Agency is investigating the fatal crash, which claimed the life of the driver after he was...
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