Published: Tuesday, November 23, 2010, 10:32 PM ??? Updated: Tuesday, November 23, 2010, 10:44 PM
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MOBILE, Ala. -- Three vehicles collided on Moffett Road tonight, killing one person, according to Mobile police.
Spokesman Officer Christopher Levy said the identity of the victim was not immediately released. He said the accident forced the closure of a long stretch of Moffett Road on either side of the crash scene.
Witnesses told the Press-Register a woman who was in a van involved in the?accident was?injured. Her condition was not known late Tuesday.
The crash, which was reported just before 8 p.m., left a red SUV demolished and overturned in the outside westbound lane of Moffett Road near Kuffskie Lane, about a quarter-mile west of Wolf Ridge Road.
A landscaping truck owned by Hosea O. Weaver and Sons Inc. ended up in the front yard of the home of LaCynthia Matthews-Adams. The damaged van was further west of the other two vehicles.
A member of the Weaver work crew told the Press-Register no one in the truck was injured. He said the truck was hauling a hydroseeder, a machine that plants a mix of mulch and seeds.
Witnesses to the crash said the red SUV was eastbound when it hit the van, struck the eastbound curb, went out of control and turned over before colliding with the westbound Hosea Weaver truck.
Matthews-Adams, who said she had just brought her 5-year-old son home from the hospital after a tonsillectomy, was inside her home when the wreck happened. She said she heard a series of crashing sounds “that were consistently coming closer” and moved herself and the boy toward the back of her house.
“When we looked out, we saw the wreck in our yard,” Matthews-Adams said. “I was hoping for a better outcome. It just brought tears to my eyes.”
Police closed Moffett Road from Wolf Ridge Road to Shelton Beach Road until just after 10 p.m.
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