Quick Facts:
Where: At the exchange of Interstate 65 and Interstate 59/20 in Birmingham, Alabama.
What Happened: A tractor-trailer crashed off the side of the ramp connecting two interstates and landed on the ground below.
Participants:
- Tractor-trailer driver.
- One person, vehicle unknown.
Reported Injuries/Fatalities:
- Charles Eugene Pearce Jr, 59, killed.
- Second individual, injured.
Details:
UPDATE: The deceased tractor-trailer driver has been identified as 59-year-old Gulf Shores, Alabama resident Charles Eugene Pearce Jr.
On or about Tuesday, October 6th, 2020, at or around 5:11 in the afternoon, one person was killed and another was injured when a tractor-trailer hauling cars crashed in Birmingham, Alabama.
Police representatives said that a tractor-trailer veered off the ramp connecting Interstate 65 and Interstate 59/20, and that one occupant was pronounced dead a short time after the crash. One other person was taken to the hospital with unknown injuries.
Authorities are still examining the details surrounding the crash.