Loretto Woman Dies In Car Accident In Alabama
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Posted on December 04, 2005
GREENHILL — Flashing red and blue emergency lights illuminated the highway and indicated a site that is becoming too familiar in the area.
Authorities said one person was killed and another injured in a two-car accident just after 9 on Friday night.
Lauderdale County Coroner Myron Crunk pronounced 66-year-old Loretto, Tenn., resident Loree O. White dead at the scene.
Officials with the Quad-Cities State Troopers Post said 28-year-old Daniel Baker, of Florence, was airlifted from the scene and flown to Huntsville Hospital by AirEvac.
His condition was unknown Friday night.
The accident happened on Lauderdale 47, just over a half-mile past the Lauderdale 47 and Lauderdale 73 intersection.
Emergency personnel at the scene said the two cars collided head-on.
White was driving a 1997 Cadillac and was traveling northeast toward Greenhill, while Baker was driving a 1992 Chevrolet Lumina and traveling south toward Kilburn Beach.
The impact of the accident was in the northbound lane and was heard more than a half-mile away by residents.
The force of the impact was so severe that both cars spun around and ended up in opposite directions from the direction they were traveling.
Baker’s car ended up in the southbound lane pointed north. The victim’s vehicle was spun around and ended up going through a barbed wire fence more than 30 feet off the side of the roadway.
The impact knocked the Cadillac more than 90 feet from the Chevrolet.
The accident is under investigation by the Alabama Department of Public Safety’s Quad-Cities Troopers Post.
White is the 75th traffic fatality in northwest Alabama and the southern Tennessee counties of Wayne and Lawrence this year.
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