By Gary Lloyd
TRAFFORD — The Jefferson County Coroner’s Office has identified the victim of a fatal crash in Trafford on Tuesday afternoon.
The victim was identified as Herman Tavis Mulvehill Jr., 53, of Trafford.
Jefferson County sheriff’s deputies responded at about 1 p.m. Tuesday to the 3300 block of Smith Mill Road in northern Jefferson County to investigate the accident.
They arrived to find Mulvehill dead on the scene. He had been the only person in the truck.
The investigation indicates that the driver of the 1998 Ford pickup truck lost control of the vehicle in a curve. The truck left the road and struck a tree.
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