ALBERTVILLE-The Alabama Law Enforcement Agency reports a single-vehicle accident has taken the life of one person and sent another to hospital on Saturday, September 2:
“A single-vehicle crash that occurred at approximately 2:01 a.m. Saturday, September 2, has claimed the life of a Boaz man.
Matthew S. Thurmond, 28, was fatally injured when the 2015 GMC 1500 pickup that he was a passenger in left the roadway, struck an embankment and overturned.
Thurmond was not using a seat belt at the time of the crash, was ejected and pronounced deceased at the scene. The driver, Eugene L. Monroe, 25, of Albertville, was injured and transported to Huntsville Hospital, in Huntsville, for treatment.
The crash occurred on Alabama 205 near the 13 mile marker, approximately five miles west of Albertville, in Marshall County.
Nothing further is available as Troopers with the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency’s (ALEA) Highway Patrol Division continue to investigate.”
Corporal Reginal M. King/Alabama Law Enforcement Agency
