Garlock, the coroner, said the location of the wreck is “notorious” for hydroplaning, as the northbound highway curves down a hill to a small creek. Four others were ranch residents and two were guests, Smith said. Two of the dead in the van were Gulley’s children, ages 4 and 16. Gulley remained hospitalized Sunday in Montgomery in serious but stable condition. He had returned from Gulf Shores in a separate van and did not see the crash when it happened.

“Words cannot explain what I saw,” Smith said of the accident site, which he visited Saturday. Candice Gulley, the ranch director, was the van’s only survivor - pulled from the flames by a bystander. Michael Smith, the youth ranch’s CEO, said the van was heading back to the ranch near Camp Hill, northeast of Montgomery, after a week at the beach in Gulf Shores. The van in Saturday’s crash was carrying children ages 4 to 17 who belonged to the Tallapoosa County Girls Ranch, a youth home operated by the Alabama Sheriffs Association. “By afternoon, we expect the system to be well offshore.”Ībout 1 to 2 inches (3 to 5 centimeters) of rain was expected for the Carolinas before Claudette moved out to sea. “An isolated tornado is possible early this morning over parts of the Outer Banks,” said Brad Reinhart, a specialist with the National Hurricane Center. Makayla Ross, a 23-year-old Fort Payne woman, died Saturday after her car ran off the road into a swollen creek, DeKalb County Deputy Coroner Chris Thacker told WHNT-TV.Ī tropical storm warning was in effect from Cape Fear, North Carolina, to the town of Duck on the Outer Banks. Jack Kennedy of the Tuscaloosa Violent Crimes Unit.

Garlock identified them as 29-year-old Cody Fox and his 9-month-old daughter, Ariana both of Marion County, Tennessee.Īdditionally, a 24-year-old man and a 3-year-old boy were also killed Saturday when a tree fell on their house just outside the Tuscaloosa city limits, said Capt. The crash also claimed the lives of two other people who were in a separate vehicle. Butler County Coroner Wayne Garlock said vehicles likely hydroplaned. The vehicle erupted in flames in the wreck along a wet Interstate 65 about 35 miles (55 kilometers) south of Montgomery. The children who died Saturday were in a van for a youth home for abused or neglected children. ATLANTA (AP) - Claudette regained tropical storm status Monday morning as it neared the coast of the Carolinas less than two days after 13 people died - including eight children in a multi-vehicle crash - due to the effects of the storm in Alabama.

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