From Tribune staff reports
JEFFERSON COUNTY — Jefferson County Chief Deputy Coroner Bill Yates identified a north Alabama woman as the fatality in a crash on Interstate 65 in Fultondale on Saturday.
The two-vehicle crash that occurred at approximately 4:53 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 23, closed the northbound lanes of Interstate 65 near the 266 mile marker in Jefferson County, according to Corporal Reginal M. King of the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency.
The Interstate was reopened about three hours later at 7:45 p.m. Troopers with the ALEA Highway Patrol Division are investigating the incident.