Two people killed in Autauga County wreck

AUTAUGA COUNTY, Ala. (WAKA) – Two people have been killed in a wreck involving a tractor-trailer truck and two pickup trucks in Autauga County.

Alabama State Troopers say the wreck happened at about 7:30AM yesterday on U.S. Highway 82 about two miles west of Billingsley.

State troopers say 20-year-old Harrison Short of Auburn was one of the people killed. They say he was a passenger in one of the pickup trucks, which hit the tractor-trailer truck, driven by 59-year-old Terry Lenoir of Maplesville. The driver of the pickup that Short was in was 19-year-old Joseph Whatley of Mountain Brook.

Investigators say after that collision, the pickup truck was hit by another pickup, which was driven by 27-year-old Terrius Smith of Selma. A passenger in that truck, 50-year-old David Bethel of Jones, was also killed. Smith was taken to Baptist Medical Center South in Montgomery for treatment.

Whatley and two additional passengers in the truck he was driving were injured. Whatley and 19-year-old Gabriel Smith of Birmingham were also taken to Baptist South Medical Center. Elliot  Young, 20, of Auburn, was airlifted to Baptist South Medical Center for medical treatment.