Wreck injures students
Published 12:00 am Thursday, October 2, 2014
Straughn High School students escaped serious injury after a head-on collision on Soil Surface Road, Tuesday evening.
The vehicles met in a sharp curve that Alabama State Trooper Justin Vann measured to be no more than 16 feet wide.
The road is too narrow and should have 9 feet per vehicle available, Vann said.
“That’s just a bad curve; that’s all there is to it,” he said. “But dirt roads are sketchy. It’s cutting it close.”
Witnesses said two students, passengers in the cars, were injured and transported to a local hospital.
Brock Hammett, driver of the Ford pickup, and Hunter Cauley, driver of the Impala, both escaped serious injuries.
However, Cauley’s mother said she would have his wrist examined.