From the West Alabama Newsroom– A Selma woman is killed in an early morning single vehicle crash — near the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma. ALEA State Troopers say 24 year old Shatavia Sharpe died at the scene of the accident. The car Sharpe was driving left the roadway — hit a light pole — then continued into Civil Rights…
On Sunday, July 25, around 1:50 a.m., Jason Lemart Wright, 39, died when the 2004 Ford Expedition driven by Cedric Lamar Thomas Sr., 44, left the roadway, struck a guard rail before going airborne and struck a tree. Medics transported Wright to a local hospital for treatment, where he later died.
Montgomery Senator Quinton Ross has introduced a bill requiring back seat passengers to wear a seatbelt. It’s called the Roderic Scott Seat Belt safety act – it’s named after the Lee High School student and basketball star who was killed in a wreck on I-65 last year. He was a passenger in the backseat and was ejected from the car….
