Three Northeast Alabama residents have lost their lives since Friday night in accidents involving vehicles and an overturned tractor, according to the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency.
A Leesburg, Alabama, man identified as Jimmy Jake Ford Jr., 35, was pronounced dead at the scene after a crash reported at 8:20 p.m. Friday on U.S. Highway 11, four miles north of Collinsville, Alabama, according to senior trooper Derek Taylor.
Ford was a passenger in a 2001 Toyota 4Runner driven by 22-year-old Logan Bradley that collided head-on with a 2018 Toyota Camry driven by 18-year-old Isaac Jones, of Collinsville, Taylor said. Jones and a female passenger, Brittany Patterson, 20, of Union Grove, Alabama, were taken to an area hospital for treatment, authorities said. There was no word on their conditions.
Two more people were killed in crashes on Monday, troopers said.
A two-vehicle crash at 12:58 p.m. Monday claimed the life of a 34-year-old Attalla, Alabama, woman identified as Jessica Lynn Sewell, trooper Greg Johnson said in a statement. Sewell, who was not wearing a seat belt, was pronounced dead at the scene on Alabama Highway 179, seven miles south of Boaz, Alabama. She was a passenger in a 2002 Dodge Ram driven by Timothy Dillard Jr., 32, of Attalla, Johnson said. Dillard, who also was not wearing his seat belt, was injured and taken to an area hospital. Dillard's Dodge Ram collided with a 2006 Peterbilt dump truck. The driver of the dump truck and a passenger, neither of whom were identified in a news release, were uninjured, Johnson said.
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In Monday's second fatality, a 62-year-old Collinsville man was killed when his tractor overturned on County Road 212, according to trooper Sgt. Roman Hill. Terry Glenn Pigg was killed when the John Deere 6220 tractor he was driving left the road and flipped over about five miles north of Collinsville in Etowah County. He was pronounced dead at the scene.