Information sought
Alabama Law Enforcement Agency officials are seeking information regarding the driver involved in a fatal hit-and-run accident that happened about 3 p.m. CDT last Sunday on Schwaiger Road in Good Hope, Ala. The collision claimed the life of 75-year-old Helen Virginia Duke, of Cullman, Ala. ALEA officials said anyone with information regarding the vehicle — believed to be some kind of Ford with possible damage to the passenger side rear-view mirror — or driver involved should call the agency’s Decatur post at 256-353-0631.
State patrol officers in North Alabama in the last five days have investigated a half dozen fatal crashes, including a hit-and-run collision that killed a 75-year-old pedestrian, two motorcycle crashes that left two dead and another that fatally injured a 17-year-old boy.
Alabama Law Enforcement Agency spokesman Curtis Summerville said 75-year-old pedestrian Helen Virginia Duke, of Cullman, was killed Sunday just inside Good Hope, Ala., when she was hit by a vehicle that remains at large, according to a statement from the agency. Troopers were notified of the incident on Schwaiger Road about 3:10 p.m. CDT Sunday.
Troopers are looking for an unknown Ford vehicle with damage to the passenger-side mirror, Summerville said.
Nearest Chattanooga in DeKalb County, 77-year-old Huntsville resident Billy Ray Stanfill was killed on Alabama Highway 117 when his 2009 Harley-Davidson motorcycle overturned and ejected him around 12:50 p.m. CDT on Sunday. The single-vehicle crash happened around the 10-mile marker on Highway 117, inside the Hammondville city limits, Summerville said.