ALEA Gives Holiday Weekend Updates On Fatalities, DUI Arrests

TUSCALOOSA, AL — The Alabama Law Enforcement Agency (ALEA) provided stats this week from a busy Fourth of July holiday weekend, saying 10 people, including two Northport residents, were killed statewide in vehicle crashes from Friday, July 2 to Monday at midnight.

While ALEA says the roads were busy, thankfully there were no boating fatalities or drownings on the state’s waterways. In terms of arrests, ALEA’s Marine Patrol Division reported 10 boating under the influence arrests and 81 DUI arrests.

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ALEA then said of the 10 people killed in traffic crashes investigated by troopers, only five were using seat belts at the time of the crash. Deadly crashes were reported in Lawrence, Talladega, Winston, Marengo, Pickens, Tuscaloosa, Chilton and Clarke counties.

In Pickens County, two people were killed on Sunday — including Northport preschool teacher Andrea Burrage, 19 — in a two-vehicle crash on Alabama Highway 159 in Gordo.

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The traffic fatality in Tuscaloosa County occurred Monday evening on U.S. Highway 43 near John Swindle Road. The victim was identified as 36-year-old Audra Rogers — a Northport mother of four who was expecting another child.

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Rogers was pronounced dead at the scene, while all four of her children and the driver of the other vehicle involved in the crash, were transported to area hospitals for treatment.

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