From Trussville Tribune staff reports
A Vestavia Hills man died Thursday morning in a single-vehicle car wreck that occurred on Interstate 459.
John Benjamin Bonifay, 68, was pronounced dead at 7:38 a.m. Thursday, according to Jefferson County Chief Deputy Coroner Bill Yates.
Yate said the accident took place in the southbound lane of I-459 at the I-20/I-59 interchange adjacent to McCalla and Bessemer.
Bonifay was driving a 2008 Mercedes E550 when the wreck occurred at approximately 7:26 a.m.
“For unknown reasons, he lost control, and went off the road,” said Yates who added that the vehicle flipped over and came to rest upside down.
