From The Trussville Tribune staff reports
TALLADEGA COUNTY –A two-vehicle crash at 1:40 p.m. on Saturday has claimed four lives and injured one other.
Leiah Gatlin Watts, 38, of Munford was killed when the 2014 Ford Expedition she was driving was struck by a 2016 Chevrolet Colorado driven by Wiley Marsh Whitworth, 75, of Talladega. Watts was pronounced dead at the scene. Three passengers in the Ford Expedition were also killed. Evelyn Foshee Watts, 73, of Munford; Melda Faye Howard, 73, of Lincoln; and Mary Anna Burgess Adair, 78, of Lincoln were all pronounced dead at the scene.
A fourth passenger, Tammy McBurnett, 44, of Lincoln, was injured and transported to Citizens Hospital in Talladega. The driver of the Chevrolet Colorado was not injured. The crash occurred on Alabama 21 at the intersection of Grist Mill Road, four miles south of Talladega.